Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. ~Frank B. Kellogg
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety. ~Rajneesh
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I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy. ~Naveen Jain
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Love gives life within. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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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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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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The silent dog is the first to bite. ~German Proverb
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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act. ~Ryszard Kapuscinski
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