Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow. ~English 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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You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck; and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee; or you can go out and become an entrepreneur. ~Al Michaels
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Truth is time's daughter. ~Spanish Proverb
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ~Frank Black
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese 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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If you didn't watch "The Shield," you should stop everything you are doing and go back and watch "The Shield." ~Timothy Simons
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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A friend in need is a friend indeed. ~Chinese Proverb
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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