Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time, they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn. ~Thomas Friedman
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I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college. ~Candace Bushnell
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~Francis Bacon
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means. ~Gerry Adams
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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. ~Helen Mirren
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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Even the smallest of stars shines in the darkness. ~Swedish Proverb
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein. ~Jerry Brown
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says. ~Dick Cheney
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. ~Barney Frank
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Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ~Charles Evans Hughes
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Let me think about the people I care about... ~Ze Frank
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The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy. ~Sebastian Faulks
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