The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ~Mark Twain
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone. ~William Beveridge
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When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. ~Louis Pasteur
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success; such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. ~Nikola Tesla
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
#proverbs #moorish-proverbs #mother
To the seeing eye life is mostly sparrows. ~Will Cuppy
#quotes #will-cuppy #life
For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive. ~Abraham Maslow
#quotes #abraham-maslow #mistakes
Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
#proverbs #government #mercy
Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#quotes #samuel-taylor-coleridge #mind
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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