Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees. ~John Mackey
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school. ~Valentino Garavani
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed. ~Azerbaijani Proverb
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I think inspiration is always around; it is just a question of whether or not you are noticing it. ~John Green
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Instinct is stronger than upbringing. ~Irish Proverb
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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For me, poetry is always a search for order. ~Elizabeth Jennings
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. ~Stephen Rea
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A friend in need is a friend indeed. ~Chinese Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work. ~Bill Murray
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion. ~Germaine Greer
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I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. ~Helen Mirren
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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