The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. ~Edward Young
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Don't give advice unless you're asked. ~Amy Alcott
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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I'm a songwriter first. ~Carole King
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I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film. ~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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To the seeing eye life is mostly sparrows. ~Will Cuppy
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed, can let their veins run cold. ~Wilfred Owen
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Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men ~Tunku Abdul Rahman
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Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. ~Jose Marti
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Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details. ~Daniel Dennett
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All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible. ~Abraham Lincoln
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down. ~Young Buck
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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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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I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation. ~Nate Silver
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. ~Camille Paglia
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Gossip is hardly uplifting. ~Ginger Rogers
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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