As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard. ~Gena Showalter
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If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work. ~Bill Gates
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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Need teaches a plan. ~Irish Proverb
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Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop. ~Roshon Fegan
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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Praise the young and they will blossom. ~Irish Proverb
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus. ~Don Zimmer
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. ~Pearl S. Buck
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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