If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that is largely because we have tried to keep our business small, and our management teams tight-knit. I feel that small, compact companies, are better run. That is partly because people feel more connected in small companies. ~Richard Branson
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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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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
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals. ~Alphonsus Rodriguez
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one. ~James Robertson
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Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree. ~Polish Proverb
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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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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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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. ~Henry David Thoreau
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Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make 'em go. ~William J. Clinton
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Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~English Proverb
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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life. ~Tom Petty
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer. ~Frank Sinatra
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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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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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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