Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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proverbiosSuccess is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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quotistThe necessity for "professionals" in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged. ~Jason Alexander
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A healthy man is a successful man. ~French Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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If you want something done well, do it yourself. ~English Proverb
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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