In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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You can almost believe what you know is not true when you really have to. ~Carol Plum Ucci
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States. ~Peter Camejo
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And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
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Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive. ~Robert Kiyosaki
#quotes #robert-kiyosaki #strength #compassion

He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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For my own style, I love vintage. 60's and 70's are my favorite. I love baby doll dresses and the soft colors. I try to mix a little bit of modern into that; maybe I'll wear it with boots. At my school we wear a uniform, but we have one day a week we can wear whatever we want. ~Elle Fanning
#quotes #elle-fanning #60s #70s #clothing

Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I am not stupid. I didn't say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. ~Sherrilyn Kenyon
#quotes #sherrilyn-kenyon #stupidity #change #xypher #acheron

Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
#proverbs #yugoslav-proverbs #human

But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
#quotes #thomas-sowell #nuclear #bombing #terrorism

What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. ~Arthur Ashe
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