If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ~John Shelton Reed
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You can trust the promise of this opening. Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning. That is at one with your life's desire. ~John O'Donohue
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle. ~Jodi Picoult
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life. ~Tim Blake Nelson
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories. ~Salma Hayek
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game. ~Jose Mourinho
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. ~Anita Desai
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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