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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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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Rose is famous for grace, advocate is famous for case, horse is famous for race. But you are famous for sweetness on your face.
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race. ~Kirk Hammett
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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A guy who is crazily, madly in love with you. A guy who sees how incredible and amazing you are, even though you're not the cheerleader or even close to the prettiest girl in the school. A guy who thinks you're beautiful, just the way you are. ~Candace Bushnell
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies. ~Amy Adams
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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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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both. ~Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. ~Cleanthes
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The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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