To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor. ~Paul A. Baran
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else. ~Sarah Lacy
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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Theatre is where my heart is. It is where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that is what I want to come back to. ~Kelly Reilly
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as "don't make a mistake." And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out. ~Bernard L. Schwartz
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The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
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