A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff. ~Mindy Kaling
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. ~Cleanthes
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Even if you're not going anywhere, do not get in the way. ~Jose Bergamin
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East. ~Bernie Sanders
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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God does not change; and neither does His love. He loved you before you were born. He loves you now; and He will love you forever. ~Billy Graham
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As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years; the longest in the world. ~Robert Jarvik
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We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all. ~William Wilberforce
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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