Good things come to those who wait. ~English 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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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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Beggars can't be choosers. ~English Proverb
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don't like the writing, I don't like acting. I think in some ways everything starts for me from the place of writing. ~Greta Gerwig
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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