To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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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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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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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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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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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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The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one. ~James Robertson
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary. ~Billy Crystal
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ~Helen Suzman
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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