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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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proverbiosFashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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The maxims of men disclose their hearts. ~French Proverb
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, the positive pronounce without dismay. ~William Cowper
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The superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole. ~Peter Thiel
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend. ~Tony Snow
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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I need to be in a stable environment right now in my career. What I mean by that is a place where I can play and not have too much pressure on me and a place I can develop. Monaco wanted me and did whatever they could to get me so I feel very very good about that. ~Freddy Adu
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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I dream about people who do not need to have sex to know they love each other. ~Carol Rifka Brunt
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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