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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. ~Seth Godin
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I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. ~Helen Mirren
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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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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ~Barbara Jordan
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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proverbiosA single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. ~Giuseppe Garibaldi
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If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not; you are not smiling about it. ~Wynton Marsalis
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. ~Camille Paglia
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. ~Michel de Montaigne
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
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No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven. ~Michio Kaku
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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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