I adore clothes, they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished. ~Anne Robinson
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. ~Ayn Rand
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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The cat was created when the lion sneezed. ~Arabic Proverb
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. ~Robyn Davidson
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else. ~Sarah Lacy
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I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. ~Jon Scieszka
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way. ~Harvey Mackay
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb
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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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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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