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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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not. ~Leos Carax
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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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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Sometimes 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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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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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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Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for. ~Brian Tracy
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~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
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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
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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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
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I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life. ~Alan Ball
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My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda. ~Rick Derringer
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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