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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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proverbiosFor piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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There is no place like home. ~English Proverb
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A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. ~Hebrew Proverb
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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