My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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Working with the likes of Joseph Fiennes was just an incredible experience. ~Alice Eve
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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Invest less at the end of the month. Brokers tend to push stocks at the end of the month in an effort to match or surpass their previous month's sales. ~Nancy Dunnan
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ~Daisaku Ikeda
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ~Dag Hammarskjold
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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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Movements are as eloquent as words. ~Isadora Duncan
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Our problem with desire is that we want too little. ~C. S. Lewis
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ~Paulo Coelho
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In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as "don't make a mistake." And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out. ~Bernard L. Schwartz
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination. ~Albert Einstein
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I would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don't have an ethical obligation to pay taxes that you do not owe. In fact, you should be seeking ways to legally minimise your taxes. ~John Mackey
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It is just a weakness that we human beings have for control, we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more. ~Dave Davies
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