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Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like. ~Alexander Payne
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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proverbiosEmbrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth. ~Madeleine Albright
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Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ~French Proverb
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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Every great story seems to begin with a snake. ~Nicolas Cage
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. ~Stephen LaBerge
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
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All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree; I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing. ~Andrea Corr
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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