Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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I got into real estate very much by accident. ~Jeff Greene
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish 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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Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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If you want something done well, do it yourself. ~English Proverb
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It is good for us to get into the Word, but it is much better for the Word to get into us. ~David J. Stewart
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Children see things very well sometimes, and idealists even better. ~Lorraine Hansberry
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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All of the good, weird stories I've written are based on things I've dredged out of my subconscious. That's the real stuff. Everything else is fake. ~Ray Bradbury
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way. ~Harvey Fierstein
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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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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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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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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English 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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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be. ~Joe Sakic
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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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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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