Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. ~Native American Proverb
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one. ~James Robertson
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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Good things come to those who wait. ~English Proverb
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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