If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~Hippocrates
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Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work. ~Christophe Beck
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ~William James
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Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business. ~Bill Rancic
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One thing I like about Twitter is that you can hear it from the horse's mouth. ~Big Boi
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Weep now, but tomorrow be strong. Remember who we are and that whatever else is taken from us, they will never strip our honour and our pride. ~Elizabeth Chadwick
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Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along? ~Peter Schuyler
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. ~Sigmund Freud
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom. ~Pierre Corneille
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My dad in particular, I tend to use; I call him "The Brain." If he's accessible, I'd rather put it through his brain. My wife, Melissa, maintains that the closer he is in proximity to me, the less I think for myself. And I think she's actually correct. So anything worth mulling over, I will mull over with my father, and that includes ratings. ~Joshua Malina
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor. ~Ray Liotta
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