Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well. ~Bob Brown
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor. ~Paul A. Baran
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Who does not thank for little, will not thank for much. ~Estonian Proverb
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The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction. ~Ha-Joon Chang
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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. ~Tilda Swinton
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns. ~Tom Hicks
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you care, do something. If you don't care, please stay out of the way of those who do. ~Simon Sinek
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
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Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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