First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind. ~Francis Bacon
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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Most clients expect experience design to be a discrete activity, solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a single research study. It must be an ongoing effort, a process of continually learning about users, responding to their behaviors, and evolving the product or service. ~Dan Brown
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The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb
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What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted; it was borrowed, spent, and wasted. ~Paul Ryan
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That is a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. ~William Shakespeare
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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When the legs go, the heart soon follows ~John Wooden
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night. ~Charles Spurgeon
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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Are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love? ~Cecelia Ahern
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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I stuck my tongue out at him because I was feeling exceptional mature. ~Janet Evanovich
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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