In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as "don't make a mistake." And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out. ~Bernard L. Schwartz
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ~John Shelton Reed
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed. ~William Faulkner
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, the romance and you find out, you still care for the person.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you; at any time. ~Harold Pinter
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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Achilles absent was Achilles still! ~Homer
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Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English Proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it is better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown
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I am still me even after all that has happened. ~Victoria Beckham
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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