When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. ~John Burroughs
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy. ~Naveen Jain
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A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem. ~Christina Romer
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time, they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn. ~Thomas Friedman
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~English Proverb
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ~John Shelton Reed
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I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I would bring things to class that I had cooked at home. ~Giada De Laurentiis
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No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ~John Mortimer
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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