A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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I take pride in the fact that a lot of little kids dig what I do. ~John Cena
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I am too pure for you or anyone. ~Sylvia Plath
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Hardest job in America is being a single mom. There are a lot of them and a lot of them in Baltimore and I think that they absolutely do their best. They can't keep continue to do their best if businesses flee the city. ~Dana Perino
#quotes #dana-perino #mother #business
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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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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That is what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us. ~Kurt Busch
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
#quotes #lady-randolph-churchill #women #beauty
A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ~Indian Proverb
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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