When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change. ~Mitch Kapor
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl. ~Emily Mortimer
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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I always say to my Twitter followers to come to the stage door and meet me. What I love about being in the theatre, rather than filming, is that you meet your audience. ~Sheridan Smith
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When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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When I am in situations where I break out of the pattern, it's hard on me. Once you get used to regular scripture study, you miss it if you don't have it. It's like food; you have to have it. I know that I need the scriptures like I need food. I don't miss a regular meal, and I don't miss regular scripture study. ~Henry B. Eyring
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A secret is like a dove, when it leaves the hand, it takes wings. ~Saudi Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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