A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem. ~Christina Romer
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not do what you will have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb
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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. ~Abe Fortas
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One person's craziness is another person's reality. ~Tim Burton
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In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid. ~Jay Smith
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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Good things come to those who wait. ~English Proverb
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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I'm a very direct person and, sometimes, when I want something, I will push it until I get it. But, it's OK. It's not as bad as some people. When I have an idea in my head, I'm pretty stubborn. ~Julie Delpy
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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My whole life has been stability. People who have worked with me have for a long time. Air Asia is the same people who started it. ~Tony Fernandes
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it. ~Tommy Tenney
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I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says. ~Dick Cheney
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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