Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan proverb
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ~Frank Black
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music. ~Simon Cowell
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You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state. ~Benjamin Netanyahu
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Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit. ~Dorothy Thompson
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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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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese Proverb
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is. ~James Gray
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ~Paulo Coelho
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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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