Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian 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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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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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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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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Sorrow is brief but joy is endless ~Friedrich Schiller
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole. ~Peter Thiel
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. ~Emily Dickinson
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Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound. ~Latin Proverb
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People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for. ~Dash Mihok
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Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~Corey Ford
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The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
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Trust in God, but tie your camel. ~Arabic Proverb
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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