In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you will create something magical that might be the best thing you have ever accomplished. ~Tori Amos
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. ~Abdallah II of Jordan
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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If you care, do something. If you don't care, please stay out of the way of those who do. ~Simon Sinek
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Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff. ~Mindy Kaling
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
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Who are you? The band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say. ~Janet Fitch
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
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He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher. ~Benjamin Whichcote
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In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. ~Bobby Rahal
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ~Paulo Coelho
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Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously? ~Steve Stevaert
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. ~Daniel Burnham
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. ~William Hazlitt
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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