You think you are prepared. You think you have done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then, whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that will knock your little world off its axis. Something that will either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. ~James Michael
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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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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Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave. ~Kool Moe Dee
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~Indian Proverb
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When the legs go, the heart soon follows ~John Wooden
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. ~Ted Williams
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We can't afford as a nation; not because of money but because of our social fabric; to have large numbers of people who are not working. ~Donna Shalala
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Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head. ~Proverb
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All the stars that never were, are parking cars and pumping gas. ~Dionne Warwick
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The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story. ~Scott Rudin
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Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. ~Richard Dawkins
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There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible. ~Moby
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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. ~Paul Cezanne
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ~Marlene Dietrich
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All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States. ~Peter Camejo
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