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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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proverbiosSometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just let go of your "demand" on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You are arguing with "what is." Your demands keep you chained to the "dream state" of the conditioned mind. The desire to "control" is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake. ~Adyashanti
#quotes #adyashanti #happiness
Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees. ~John Mackey
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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Every proverb speaketh sooth; dreams and omens mask the truth. ~Welsh Proverb
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Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for. ~Brian Tracy
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. ~Bobby Rahal
#quotes #bobby-rahal #competition
Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
#quotes #harry-mathews #life #childhood #boys
I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
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It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player. ~Anna Kournikova
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How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships. ~Tom Robbins
#quotes #tom-robbins #memories #personality
I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. ~Pauline Kael
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both. ~Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
#quotes #vilayanur-s-ramachandran #art #science #creativity #thinking
The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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