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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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I'm a songwriter first. ~Carole King
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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proverbiosA family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress. ~Jean Bertrand Aristide
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world. ~Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. ~Pearl S. Buck
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education. ~Melanie Griffith
#quotes #melanie-griffith #education #internet #knowledge
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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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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The most dangerous food a man can eat is a wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases. ~Ron Wyden
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I realized that even in a world of proliferating media venues, online and in print, and on TV and on countless cable channels, the idea that I could be considered an expert on chronic knee pain was I think troubling for society, but very exciting for me. ~John Hodgman
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. ~Michel de Montaigne
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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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Fame is a magnifying glass. ~English Proverb
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I am fortunate in that I am a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ~Paul Kane
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