As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth. ~Gautama Buddha
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. ~Terence McKenna
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I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another. ~Russell M. Nelson
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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I doubt anyone in Hollywood has had more "dates" than me. ~George Hamilton
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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. ~George Burns
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The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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I have a collection of 50-plus snapback hats. ~James Harden
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him; and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love. ~Alberto Moravia
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored. ~Stanley B. Prusiner
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Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole. ~Peter Thiel
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Virtue is its own reward. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I only discovered the "Harry Potter" series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of "Harry Potter" didn't help much, and I fared poorly. ~Sonam Kapoor
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Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul. ~John Clellon Holmes
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ~John Mortimer
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