It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ~Max Beerbohm
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, "What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?" ~Matt Reeves
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Love gives life within. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~Proverb
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. ~Mitch Kapor
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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Earth is dearer than gold. ~English Proverb
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan 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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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up, it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together. ~Michael Light
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. ~Ronald Reagan
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