A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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It's hard to be a good doctor if you don't think about the social circumstances of who you're treating. There are many Tory doctors, but I think it's difficult to be a doctor and a genuine right winger. ~Robert Winston
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for. ~Brian Tracy
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb
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I didn't want to be anyone else. ~Gordon Waller
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The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws. ~Ernest Holmes
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not. ~Leos Carax
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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