Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. ~Mitch Kapor
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb
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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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I admit that, my wife is outspoken, but by whom? ~Sam Levenson
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions. ~Aristotle
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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