Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work. ~Bill Gates
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is. ~Stephen Chbosky
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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Invest less at the end of the month. Brokers tend to push stocks at the end of the month in an effort to match or surpass their previous month's sales. ~Nancy Dunnan
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought. ~Dennis Bergkamp
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ~Richard M. Nixon
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish 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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I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure. ~Coco Austin
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score. ~Frank Leahy
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs #philosophical #wisdom

It had run as a column; I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it. ~Robert Scheer
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Beggars can't be choosers. ~English Proverb
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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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