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Chinese Proverb
A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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Owen Felltham
Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
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Mark Twain
It is discouraging to try and penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.
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William Jefferson Clinton
You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.
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Charles Dickens
At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. ... We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.'
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Anonymous
A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Everything has been figured out except how to live.
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Laurence J. Peter
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
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Ernest Dimnet
Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas rest your spirit in her solitary places.
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Lois McMaster Bujold
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
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Joel H. Hildebrand
The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a 'wholesome personality' are inevitably their own.
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