Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~English Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. ~Roger Avary
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In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as "don't make a mistake." And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out. ~Bernard L. Schwartz
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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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 are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ~Barbara Jordan
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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My only scheme was to be a rapper. ~Eminem
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The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. ~Matt Chandler
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ~Dag Hammarskjold
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ~Teri Hatcher
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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