My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ~Ice T
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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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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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life. ~Steve Wozniak
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she is cheered on and supported. ~Sheryl Sandberg
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, the positive pronounce without dismay. ~William Cowper
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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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Braniac dumb-dumbs, bust the scientifical.
Approach to the course and the force is centrifugal. Can you find your way through the lyrics that be catching them? Throw another rhyme across the room, they be fetching them. ~Masta Ace
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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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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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish 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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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. ~Billy Sunday
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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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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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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