Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better. ~Lucy Walker
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be. ~Anna Kendrick
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. ~George Herbert
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. ~Spanish Proverb
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Death pays all debts. ~English Proverb
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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I make the girls jump like I am Kris Kross. ~Nicki Minaj
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change. ~Mitch Kapor
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Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I am getting old and I need something to rely on. So tell me when you are going to let me in. I am getting tired and I need somewhere to begin. ~Bil Keane
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To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. ~Native American Proverb
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