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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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there is a better "Oklahoma!" someplace, a better "West Side Story." And I would like to be mixed up in it. ~Richard Rodgers
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You're out on stage, the music is blaring, the crowd is screaming, the lights are flashing, your heart is pumping, the sweat is flying, and it's the greatest feeling in the whole world. ~Michael Flatley
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If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes. ~Nguyen Cao Ky
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. ~Pauline Kael
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. ~Spanish Proverb
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ~Charles Churchill
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Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do. ~Warren Spahn
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is. ~James Gray
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. ~Bob Dylan
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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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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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"Perfect justice rules the world" for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives. ~Iamblichus
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