Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans. ~Lynda Resnick
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish Proverb
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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Do not do what you will have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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Even the smallest of stars shines in the darkness. ~Swedish Proverb
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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