Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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Any fiction is bound to be transposed autobiography. ~Elizabeth Bowen
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One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
#quotes #tim-pawlenty #barack-obama #politics #leadership #united-states

I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts. ~George Miller
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Good things come to those who wait. ~English Proverb
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements, people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts, are fatal. ~Ward McAllister
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I am usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl. ~Hope Davis
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
#quotes #lucinda-williams #past #music

You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic 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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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #tea #medicine

My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ~Jacques Derrida
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens; men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls. ~Arthur Capper
#quotes #arthur-capper #society #goodness #women #men

Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that make life interesting. ~Linda Ronstadt
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Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. ~Bob Dylan
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. ~Ivan Turgenev
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