I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I am not stupid. I didn't say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. ~Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music. ~Simon Cowell
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. ~Rumi
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I represent Orlando, Florida, the world's number one vacation destination. ~Ric Keller
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You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world. ~Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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If I die, I forgive you. If I live, we shall see. ~Spanish Proverb
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To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education. ~Melanie Griffith
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
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I realized that even in a world of proliferating media venues, online and in print, and on TV and on countless cable channels, the idea that I could be considered an expert on chronic knee pain was I think troubling for society, but very exciting for me. ~John Hodgman
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary. ~Bernard Hopkins
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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Blood is thicker than water. ~English Proverb
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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