One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market. ~Henry Paulson
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Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels. ~Kiefer Sutherland
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The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be. ~Joe Sakic
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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"You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television? ~James Patterson
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I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor. ~Ray Liotta
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Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ~Jean Genet
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained by relations of pure causality, the construction of a machine can be understood neither without purpose nor without man. A machine is made by man and for man, with a view toward certain ends to be obtained, in the form of effects to be produced, a mechanical model of any phenomena is explanatory only so long as we take machines as already granted. ~Georges Canguilhem
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What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life. ~Tom Petty
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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In a relationship you have to open yourself up. ~Neil LaBute
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There ain't no good guys, there ain't no bad guys, there's only you and me, and we just disagree. ~Dave Mason
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today. ~R. A. Salvatore
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If you want a friend, be a friend. ~English Proverb
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When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats. ~Jill Lepore
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