Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way. ~Billy Childish
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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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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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~Oliver Goldsmith
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses. ~Juliana Hatfield
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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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It's not about working anymore, it's about doing work I can be proud of. ~Paul Walker
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
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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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Need teaches a plan. ~Irish Proverb
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game. ~Jose Mourinho
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb
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Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. ~Jose Marti
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New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York. ~Michael Arad
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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