Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work. ~Bill Gates
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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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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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Truly, the sword inspires dread even in its scabbard. ~Arabic Proverb
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Even the smallest of stars shines in the darkness. ~Swedish Proverb
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you; at any time. ~Harold Pinter
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity. ~Maya Angelou
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. ~Ronald Reagan
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The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent. ~Thomas E. Sniegoski
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me. ~Moon Unit Zappa
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It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary. ~Bernard Hopkins
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