One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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I definitely have two Olympics in me; I don't know about three Olympics. ~Gracie Gold
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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There is something of a painting of a woman that represents all women; and by extension, all of humanity; that I just find very exciting. It is a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive. ~Will Cotton
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental. ~Henry Rollins
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent. ~David Lloyd
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing. ~Matt Damon
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop. ~Roshon Fegan
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese. ~Suzanne Collins
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I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive. ~Abraham Maslow
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
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