Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb
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I am getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan. ~Michael Reagan
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. ~Ronald Reagan
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ~Indian Proverb
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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies. ~Paul Cook
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish proverb
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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My dad in particular, I tend to use; I call him "The Brain." If he's accessible, I'd rather put it through his brain. My wife, Melissa, maintains that the closer he is in proximity to me, the less I think for myself. And I think she's actually correct. So anything worth mulling over, I will mull over with my father, and that includes ratings. ~Joshua Malina
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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. ~Abe Fortas
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught. ~Eric Ries
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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