America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. ~John Burroughs
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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A dimple on the chin, the devil within. ~Gaelic Proverb
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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I like my raps, but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better. But every time I hear my flow on that song I wow myself. ~Tyler The Creator
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Friendship is not how long we have been together; not how much we have given or received; not how many times we have helped each other; it is how we value each other.
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion. ~Germaine Greer
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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