If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success. ~Martin Van Buren
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It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation. ~Thurston Moore
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect! ~Jonathan Richman
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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I have a string of competitiveness in me. It's really strange cause it's not something that I would even expect myself to have, but every now and then it kinda sneaks out, you know. ~Hunter Hayes
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Under the shadow of swords, any plan is good. ~Mehmet Murat Ildan
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. ~Annie Proulx
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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