Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college. ~Candace Bushnell
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected. ~Jacki Weaver
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Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to. ~Chic Murray
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that is lost, there is usually something gained. ~Merle Shain
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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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More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases. ~Ron Kind
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals. ~Alphonsus Rodriguez
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I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York. ~Roy Ayers
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. ~Caleb Cushing
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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