Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men ~Tunku Abdul Rahman
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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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The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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A secret is like a dove, when it leaves the hand, it takes wings. ~Saudi Proverb
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Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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If you care about the people you work with then you work harder. ~Kristine Lilly
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Go to your duty, every man, and trust yourself to Christ; for He will give you all supply just as fast as you need it. You will have just as much power as you believe you can have. Be a Christian; throw yourself upon God's work; and get the ability you want in it. ~Horace Bushnell
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I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better. ~Lucy Walker
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The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto'o but he is 32 years old; maybe 35, who knows? ~Jose Mourinho
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. ~Abe Fortas
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Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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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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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~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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We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love. ~Suzanne Collins
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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