I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school. ~David Bailey
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I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. ~George Burns
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ~American Proverb
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~Thomas Jefferson
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Hope is a risk that must be run. ~Georges Bernanos
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Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught. ~Eric Ries
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I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy. ~Naveen Jain
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ~William James
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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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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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One sister for sale, one sister for sale, one crying and spying young sister for sale. I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding. Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isn't, there isn't there any one person who will buy this sister for sale. This crying spying old young sister for sale. ~Shel Silverstein
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