The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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We are focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important. ~John W. Snow
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Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. ~Richard Linklater
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Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events. ~Ralph Marston
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that is largely because we have tried to keep our business small, and our management teams tight-knit. I feel that small, compact companies, are better run. That is partly because people feel more connected in small companies. ~Richard Branson
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing; my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. ~Gary Kemp
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I am not stupid. I didn't say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. ~Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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I stuck my tongue out at him because I was feeling exceptional mature. ~Janet Evanovich
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~Oliver Goldsmith
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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You think you are prepared. You think you have done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then, whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that will knock your little world off its axis. Something that will either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. ~James Michael
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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