Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English 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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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies. ~Paul Cook
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction. ~Ha-Joon Chang
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When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony. ~Helen Nielsen
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I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~Phyllis Diller
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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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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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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One doctor makes work for another. ~English Proverb
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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service. ~Doris Kearns Goodwin
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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. ~Anne O'Hare McCormick
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ~Zhu Rongji
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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