Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. ~Barney Frank
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
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To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. ~Sallust
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Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours. ~Brendan Fraser
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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny. ~Gilbert Gottfried
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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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Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go. ~Zach Johnson
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Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
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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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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
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