Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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If you watch the first [Star Wars] movie, you don't actually know exactly what the Empire is trying to do. They're going to rule by fear; but you don't know what their endgame is. You don't know what Leia is princess of. You don't yet understand who Jabba the Hutt is, even though there is a reference to him. You don't know that Vader is Luke's father, Leia is his sister; but the possibility is all there. The beauty of that movie was that it was an unfamiliar world, and yet you wanted to see it expand and to see where it went. ~J. J. Abrams
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The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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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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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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Every proverb speaketh sooth; dreams and omens mask the truth. ~Welsh Proverb
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats. ~Jill Lepore
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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