The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ~Stephen Chbosky
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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People should decide "are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?" I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money; they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ~Felix Baumgartner
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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.
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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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"Alien" asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. "The Matrix" delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing. ~Jason Reitman
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. ~David Suzuki
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal. ~Benjamin Carson
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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