A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem. ~Christina Romer
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English 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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Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. ~Dave Barry
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett. ~Al Franken
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The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~Proverb
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all. ~Alice Eve
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Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease. ~Jim Rohn
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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