The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time, they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn. ~Thomas Friedman
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Write in the sand the flaws of your friend. ~Pythagoras
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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People aren't paying to see the Kevin McHale show, they're paying to see the cast of "Glee." ~Kevin McHale
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal. ~Benjamin Carson
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time; without UN approval and much broader support from the international community. ~Kofi Annan
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To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance. ~Michelle Wie
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
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Will is stronger than fact; it can mold and overcome fact. ~H. G. Wells
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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