Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. ~William Arthur Ward
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations, well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing. ~James Cromwell
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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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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart. ~Proverb
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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