A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto'o but he is 32 years old; maybe 35, who knows? ~Jose Mourinho
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My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds. ~Annie Leibovitz
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company. ~Courtney B. Vance
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Need teaches a plan. ~Irish Proverb
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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ~Maria Monk
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Life sucks order from a sea of disorder. ~James Gleick
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ~Daisaku Ikeda
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose. ~Warren Christopher
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You can almost taste the pressure now. ~Vin Scully
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down. ~Young Buck
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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