Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality. ~Dave Davies
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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Most clients expect experience design to be a discrete activity, solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a single research study. It must be an ongoing effort, a process of continually learning about users, responding to their behaviors, and evolving the product or service. ~Dan Brown
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men. ~Coco Chanel
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Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don't be afraid to have success or disappointment. That is what golf is all about. ~Paula Creamer
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. ~Amelia Earhart
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Trust in God, but tie your camel. ~Arabic Proverb
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I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change. ~Richard Lamm
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