Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth. ~Madeleine Albright
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I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life. ~Eva Mendes
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. ~Sylvia Plath
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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There is nothing Dutch about my architecture. ~Rem Koolhaas
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. ~Pearl S. Buck
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen 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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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power. ~Ludwig von Mises
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I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy. ~Naveen Jain
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
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"Perfect justice rules the world" for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives. ~Iamblichus
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It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player. ~Anna Kournikova
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ~Richard M. Nixon
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe; a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that has liquid water on the surface and where the gravity is just right for human beings and the atmosphere is perfect for them to breathe; where there are mountains and deserts and oceans and islands and forests and trees and birds and plants and animals and insects and people; lots and lots of people. Where there is life. Some of it, possibly, intelligent. ~Stephen Hawking
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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I tried spinning around in a chair to impress a girl. ~Ray Toro
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