Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. ~Amelia Earhart
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I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. ~Ron Perlman
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I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. ~French Proverb
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish. ~Theodor Reik
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese 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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Honesty is the best privacy policy. ~Internet Proverb
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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If you want something done well, do it yourself. ~English Proverb
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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There is something of a painting of a woman that represents all women; and by extension, all of humanity; that I just find very exciting. It is a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive. ~Will Cotton
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