It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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Don't give advice unless you're asked. ~Amy Alcott
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask. ~Kate Winslet
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I am having a good time doing nothing. ~Phylicia Rashad
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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Children see things very well sometimes, and idealists even better. ~Lorraine Hansberry
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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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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We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love. ~Suzanne Collins
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness. ~Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly. ~Garth Ennis
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I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive; those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ~Osamu Dazai
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It is true that advertising often gives information and is valuable for doing so, but some forms of advertising give precious little information, and even that little is wrong. ~Randal Marlin
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