Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness. ~Mark E. Petersen
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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My only scheme was to be a rapper. ~Eminem
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~Gaston Bachelard
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places. ~Fred Kent
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well; and just have fun on stage. ~Joan Armatrading
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I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution. ~Luc Montagnier
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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin Proverb
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Only the crystal clear question yields a transparent answer. ~Zen Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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"Why aren't you dead?" Will demanded. ~Cinda Williams Chima
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair. ~Viktor E. Frankl
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. ~Spanish Proverb
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that. ~U.G. Krishnamurti
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I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots. ~Derek Jeter
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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