Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. ~Mitch Kapor
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We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood, whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ~Thomas Friedman
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Praise the young and they will blossom. ~Irish Proverb
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
#quotes #philip-pullman #life #trust

If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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