Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that is largely because we have tried to keep our business small, and our management teams tight-knit. I feel that small, compact companies, are better run. That is partly because people feel more connected in small companies. ~Richard Branson
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African 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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I've just got to do a good job and stay on in Formula One for as long as I can. ~Kimi Raikkonen
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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It is much more enjoyable being an actor. ~Kyle Chandler
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory. ~Milton Friedman
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you're "stuck" right now, you're probably into fear. Get out of there. You've already looked both ways. Now cross the street, for heaven sake. The cars have long since gone. The coast is clear. Your only obstacle now is your own mind. ~Neale Donald Walsch
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
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The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent. ~David Lloyd
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The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. ~Donald Davis
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