Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as "don't make a mistake." And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out. ~Bernard L. Schwartz
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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. ~George Burns
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I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus and humans. I'm very interested in how we evolved so suddenly, which obviously ties in with the alien thing. ~Al Jourgensen
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Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom. ~Paulo Freire
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Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision. ~Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ~Judith Martin
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The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not. ~Leos Carax
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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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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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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ~Zhu Rongji
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens; men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls. ~Arthur Capper
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If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought. ~Dallas Willard
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~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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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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Reality is not meant to be only creedal, though the creeds are important. Reality is to be experienced, and experienced on the basis of a restored relationship with God through that finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross. ~Francis Schaeffer
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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