A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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You would think that Freddy Couples' Nick Price would be the team to beat, but I'll tell you in skins, it's a matter of just hitting it at the right time. ~Fuzzy Zoeller
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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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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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Working with the likes of Joseph Fiennes was just an incredible experience. ~Alice Eve
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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
#quotes #john-coltrane #feelings

Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
#quotes #lucinda-williams #past #music

I invented the cordless extension cord. ~Steven Wright
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary. ~Karl Lagerfeld
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Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ~Teri Hatcher
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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When I walk down the runway, my main goal is to not think about the people watching. The idea of all eyes on me would make me too uncomfortable. As I step on the runway, I take a deep breath, focus on a point in the distance, and go! ~Gisele Bundchen
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A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ~Judith Martin
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It's not about working anymore, it's about doing work I can be proud of. ~Paul Walker
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
#quotes #jane-austen #laziness #work

The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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