Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together. ~Willie Nelson
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian 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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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
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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 saw a photo of the Svoboda leader, Yatseniuk [Arseniy Yatseniuk, one of Batkivschyna leaders] and Klitschko [Vitali Klitschko, UDAR party leader] together demonstrating the unity of opposition. But I can't imagine that people like Klitschko, who position themselves as Europeans, and Yatseniuk, would willingly shake the hand of a person who in public states that Jews are the main threat to European civilization. Sometimes, while looking for and respecting opposition, we can't recognize it, ~Marek Siwiec
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice," Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true." She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. "Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth." ~Nora Roberts
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. ~Democritus
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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