Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. ~Charles Caleb
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think of God. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men. ~Coco Chanel
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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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Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans. ~Lynda Resnick
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I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life. ~Alan Ball
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Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. ~Tilda Swinton
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Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels. ~Kiefer Sutherland
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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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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. ~Emily Dickinson
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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Love's in need of love today, don't delay; send yours in right away. ~Stevie Wonder
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Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message. ~James Patterson
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. ~Ted Williams
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I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive. ~William Shatner
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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