A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn. ~Patricia Marx
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees. ~John Mackey
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For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ~Helen Suzman
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away. ~Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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Your prosperity will only grow as fast as you do. ~Randy Gage
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A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. ~Robert Orben
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