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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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proverbiosThe Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don't like the writing, I don't like acting. I think in some ways everything starts for me from the place of writing. ~Greta Gerwig
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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
#quotes #virginia-postrel #family #children #work
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
#quotes #david-knopfler #work #honesty
If you want a friend, be a friend. ~English Proverb
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Align yourself with outstanding strategic partners. ~Carol Roth
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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As far as I'm concerned, I did'nt dream; ever. ~Theodore Sturgeon
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same. ~Barbara Kingsolver
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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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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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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
#quotes #emile-durkheim #society #mind
You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
#quotes #max-lerner #peace #brotherhood #wish
I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
#quotes #melody-carlson #writing #process
You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. ~Paul Cezanne
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it is better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown
#quotes #rita-mae-brown #inspiration
I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots. ~Derek Jeter
#quotes #derek-jeter #humor
I am horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad. ~Sam Trammell
#quotes #sam-trammell #remembering