Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they are not teaching because of the financial rewards. ~John Engler
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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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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true. ~Akhil Sharma
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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Invest less at the end of the month. Brokers tend to push stocks at the end of the month in an effort to match or surpass their previous month's sales. ~Nancy Dunnan
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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Are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love? ~Cecelia Ahern
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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland 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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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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