A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education. ~Melanie Griffith
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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. ~Amelia Earhart
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It is good for us to get into the Word, but it is much better for the Word to get into us. ~David J. Stewart
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, "Who's that?" But this got me started in acting. ~James Stewart
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish Proverb
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Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. ~Margaret Heffernan
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I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that. ~David Kay
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. ~Richard Dawkins
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. ~William Hazlitt
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