What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish Proverb
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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. ~William Prescott
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I represent Orlando, Florida, the world's number one vacation destination. ~Ric Keller
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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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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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~English Proverb
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Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid? ~Lynda Barry
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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If you were to open up a baby's head, and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should; you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland. ~Dave Barry
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Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained. ~Aaron Burr
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. ~Margaret Heffernan
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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. ~Sigmund Freud
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I'm a much better mother at 46, than if I were like, 21 or 25. ~Halle Berry
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There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio; I don't know that guy. ~Bill Burr
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world. ~Jack Nicholson
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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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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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