Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful. ~Walter Huston
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
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Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb
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Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. ~Edward Young
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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To eat off another man's plate. [To live on another's expense.] ~Juvenal
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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It is objective evaluations that give our hardwiring principles teeth and drive the organization toward results that last. ~Quint Studer
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I'm a much better mother at 46, than if I were like, 21 or 25. ~Halle Berry
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I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies. ~Amy Adams
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All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree; I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing. ~Andrea Corr
#quotes #andrea-corr #family #understanding #communication

A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes. ~Samuel Adams
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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