There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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I know just how isolating it can feel to experience severe anxiety. ~Zoe Sugg
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that is largely because we have tried to keep our business small, and our management teams tight-knit. I feel that small, compact companies, are better run. That is partly because people feel more connected in small companies. ~Richard Branson
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree. ~J. P. Morgan
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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I try to write like the writers I admire, I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase. So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work. ~Brad Paisley
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We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all. ~William Wilberforce
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All actors are looking for that role that is going to define who they are. When it happens, it is a good thing. ~Jeffrey Pierce
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The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin Proverb
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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