The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look; that healthy equals beautiful. ~Victoria Principal
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I hate to lose, and I do whatever I can to win, and if it is ugly, it is ugly. ~Pete Sampras
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The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. ~Georges Bidault
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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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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Truly, the sword inspires dread even in its scabbard. ~Arabic Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness; and there is a big difference. ~Ty Cobb
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If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor. ~Jennifer James
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before, and from other years, too; to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step. ~Tony Romo
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I don't debate with liars. ~Evo Morales
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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I love layers! ~Alexander Wang
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. ~Barney Frank
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The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
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