Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day. ~Stephen King
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I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day. ~Dennis Miller
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[The raindrops] played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. ~Gary D. Schmidt
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The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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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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The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I had been up all night inventing the Camcorder. ~Al Gore
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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Sweet is the day of sacred rest;
No mortal cares shall seize my breast;
O may my heart in tune be found
Like David's harp of solemn sound. ~Isaac Watts
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. ~Camille Paglia
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after. ~Peter Stuyvesant
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Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. ~Richard Dawkins
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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