Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ~Ice T
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver wasn't that man. Not to her. He was the boy who'd cried over his dead mother, the young man who'd lost himself in drink and women to forget the past, the marquess who'd vowed not to marry for money. He was the man to be her lover. ~Sabrina Jeffries
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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You're out on stage, the music is blaring, the crowd is screaming, the lights are flashing, your heart is pumping, the sweat is flying, and it's the greatest feeling in the whole world. ~Michael Flatley
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I think I'm doing some good. Obviously, I don't need any more money. ~Joe Jamail
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
#quotes #margaret-fuller #heart #wish

As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else. ~Sarah Lacy
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We are actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself. ~Linda Gray
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
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I am too pure for you or anyone. ~Sylvia Plath
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength; not his weaknesses; to place him immediately on the defensive. ~Mark McKinnon
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Only the crystal clear question yields a transparent answer. ~Zen Proverb
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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