When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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I never really thought about becoming a professional musician. ~John Mayall
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In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. ~Bobby Rahal
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog. ~Robert Fulghum
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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ~Marlene Dietrich
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States. ~Peter Camejo
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To be a team, you must be a family. ~Don Meyer
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. ~Amelia Earhart
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. ~Jerome Bruner
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Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way. ~Harvey Mackay
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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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My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question. ~Bill Keller
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I think I'm doing some good. Obviously, I don't need any more money. ~Joe Jamail
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it is better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life. ~Tim Blake Nelson
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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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