Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
#proverbs #jewish-poverbs #wisdom #motivation

Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all. ~Nancy Sinatra
#quotes #nancy-sinatra #australia #germany #japan #united-states

I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager. I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I did'nt really care. It did'nt bother me at all. ~Vivienne Westwood
#quotes #vivienne-westwood #teenage #girls #boys

Let's do some comedy. I always like to add some comedy to my show. Those who've seen me before might know that. ~Bill Hicks
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. ~D. H. Lawrence
#quotes #d-h-lawrence #imagination #world #beauty

Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. ~Mitch Kapor
#quotes #mitch-kapor #education #career #internet #motivation

As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else. ~Sarah Lacy
#quotes #sarah-lacy #economy #china

What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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I am still me even after all that has happened. ~Victoria Beckham
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