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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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
#proverbs #conformity #wisdom

What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty. ~Ned Rorem
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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There will be many times in your lives; at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up; when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed. ~Julie Andrews
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that is this life, we will see that we have been perfectly placed, in exactly the right position, to make all the difference in the world. ~James Redfield
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid. ~Jay Smith
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. ~Caleb Cushing
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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