You have got to have a problem that you want to solve, a wrong that you want to right. ~Steve Jobs
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom. ~Paulo Freire
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human. ~Elie Wiesel
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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I am very pleased to be involved with the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee because its message resonates with me on a very personal level, My own career is an example of the universal power of music, especially the power of Hip Hop, to bring people of different backgrounds together for a common purpose. I hope that my commitment to the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee will encourage all music lovers, both amateurs and professionals - to get involved with the Music Days performance network and contribute to the "Harmony For Humanity" e-Stage. ~Russell Simmons
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You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world. ~Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
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You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress. ~Shimon Peres
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. ~John Burroughs
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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Go to your duty, every man, and trust yourself to Christ; for He will give you all supply just as fast as you need it. You will have just as much power as you believe you can have. Be a Christian; throw yourself upon God's work; and get the ability you want in it. ~Horace Bushnell
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Blue eyes say, "Love me or I die." Black eyes say, "Love me or I kill thee." ~Spanish Proverb
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