You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck; and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee; or you can go out and become an entrepreneur. ~Al Michaels
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~Proverb
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And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you will create something magical that might be the best thing you have ever accomplished. ~Tori Amos
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The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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I like my raps, but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better. But every time I hear my flow on that song I wow myself. ~Tyler The Creator
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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies. ~Charles XII of Sweden
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One sister for sale, one sister for sale, one crying and spying young sister for sale. I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding. Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isn't, there isn't there any one person who will buy this sister for sale. This crying spying old young sister for sale. ~Shel Silverstein
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (Vino Veritas) ~Pliny the Elder
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. ~Richard Dawkins
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