Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in. ~Bill Budge
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My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and magazines, and with the new technology you can watch entire movies accompanied by audio commentary from the director. You can learn more from John Sturges' audio track on the "Bad Day at Black Rock" laserdisc than you can in 20 years of film school. Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it. ~Paul Thomas Anderson
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes. ~Samuel Adams
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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When there is no thought, the kundalini rises. When you create a vacuum, something will be drawn into it. The less thought you have, the more kundalini will flow through the chakras, the shushumna. ~Frederick Lenz
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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans. ~Lynda Resnick
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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If Barack Obama is elected, I will be moving out of the country. ~Stephen Baldwin
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish Proverb
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~Indian Proverb
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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