Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for. ~Brian Tracy
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. ~Nhat Hanh
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I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says. ~Dick Cheney
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The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ~Marlene Dietrich
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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My husband and I go to Il Fico every Friday, and I get the whole-wheat pizza. I won't eat pizza anywhere else! ~Kelly Wearstler
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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As proud as a peacock. ~Proverb
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
#quotes #sue-grafton #children #schooling

If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound. ~Carolina Herrera
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu 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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I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. ~Jon Scieszka
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God bless us everyone! Said Tiny Tim, the last of all. ~Charles Dickens
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While aromatherapy is practiced by medical doctors in France, this has not been the case in England and the United States. ~Robert Tisserand
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It was like two different photographers, and shot in three different locations and it was really fun to do. There were 12 beautiful girls in it. It was great. ~Gisele Bundchen
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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
#proverbs #hindu-proverbs #self #competition

Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
#quotes #philip-pullman #life #trust

Who does not thank for little, will not thank for much. ~Estonian Proverb
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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