The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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I love layers! ~Alexander Wang
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish 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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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision. ~Charles Stanley
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way. ~Harvey Fierstein
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