Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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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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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first. ~Tom Hiddleston
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture. ~Joyce Meyer
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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Write in the sand the flaws of your friend. ~Pythagoras
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A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. ~Kathie Lee Gifford
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett. ~Al Franken
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing. ~Carrie Fisher
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Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees. ~John Mackey
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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
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The truest success is but the development of self. ~Charles Atlas
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Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ~Teri Hatcher
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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