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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ~Marlene Dietrich
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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proverbiosWhat is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
#quotes #simone-de-beauvoir #children #adults #life
All of the good, weird stories I've written are based on things I've dredged out of my subconscious. That's the real stuff. Everything else is fake. ~Ray Bradbury
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I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film. ~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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His rod reversed, and backward mutters of dissevering power. ~John Milton
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. ~Maya Angelou
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else. ~Sarah Lacy
#quotes #sarah-lacy #economy #china
If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
#quotes #geraldine-brooks #books #past
Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision. ~Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ~Edith Wharton
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People are cooking less but obsessing about it more. ~Dougie Poynter
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#eating #cooking #obsession
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
#quotes #betsy-lerner #writing #world
I am not a fan of what we call "friendly fire" or "blue on blue." We don't want to have that. ~Tommy Franks
#quotes #tommy-franks #war
Remember the street car cannot turn out. ~Charles Melville Hays
#quotes #charles-melville-hays #cars
Gardening is a humbling experience. ~Martha Stewart
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In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma. ~Greg Boyle
#quotes #greg-boyle #gang #los-angeles
"He's just a little unbalanced and lonely." He put his arms around my waist, frowning. "Can't he be lonely and unbalanced around someone else's girlfriend?" "I'll suggest it. ~Kiersten White
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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I didn't want to be anyone else. ~Gordon Waller
#quotes #gordon-waller #personality