A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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If you care about the people you work with then you work harder. ~Kristine Lilly
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund "Obamacare." They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the "Obamacare" program. ~Paul Ryan
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ~Joichi Ito
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As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth. ~Gautama Buddha
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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I'm a much better mother at 46, than if I were like, 21 or 25. ~Halle Berry
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it is better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown
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