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Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. ~Mitch Kapor
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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proverbiosEnjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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For me, life is about enjoying yourself because you only live once. We should try to make the most of things and follow our dreams. ~Heidi Klum
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There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just let go of your "demand" on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You are arguing with "what is." Your demands keep you chained to the "dream state" of the conditioned mind. The desire to "control" is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake. ~Adyashanti
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
#quotes #anne-lamott #suffering #books
The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. ~Lillie Langtry
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We can't afford as a nation; not because of money but because of our social fabric; to have large numbers of people who are not working. ~Donna Shalala
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching "Coronation Street." ~Amelia Warner
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent. ~Thomas E. Sniegoski
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
#quotes #sue-grafton #children #schooling
If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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