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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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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proverbiosGood sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. ~Emily Dickinson
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A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. ~Latin Proverb
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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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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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver wasn't that man. Not to her. He was the boy who'd cried over his dead mother, the young man who'd lost himself in drink and women to forget the past, the marquess who'd vowed not to marry for money. He was the man to be her lover. ~Sabrina Jeffries
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. ~Dave Barry
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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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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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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