Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
#quotes #michelle-hunziker #language

It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #ignorance

I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy. ~Naveen Jain
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
#proverbs #arabic-proverbs #friendship #enmity #wisdom

I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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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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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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People are cooking less but obsessing about it more. ~Dougie Poynter
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#eating #cooking #obsession

Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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You are what you "tweet".~ Internet Proverb
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I love documentaries and the computer. I am a little addicted to the computer, and that relaxes me. I find information, I shop, and I look up people I worked with to find out if they're dead or alive. ~Anne Meara
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