Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave. ~Kool Moe Dee
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We had been busy building up fibre infrastructure under the ground in Hong Kong and underneath the homes of people, so when we launched IPTV, it was relatively smoother sailing than in other territories. ~Richard Li
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school. ~Allison Scagliotti
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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