In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. ~Seth Godin
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Activity breeds prosperity. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice. ~Voltaire
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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Easy come, easy go. ~English Proverb
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen 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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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn. ~Patricia Marx
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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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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Appetite comes with eating. ~French 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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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick. ~Adam Driver
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German 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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Most clients expect experience design to be a discrete activity, solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a single research study. It must be an ongoing effort, a process of continually learning about users, responding to their behaviors, and evolving the product or service. ~Dan Brown
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Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming. ~Leonardo DiCaprio
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