Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish 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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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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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision. ~Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Remember the street car cannot turn out. ~Charles Melville Hays
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I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to. ~Lou Brock
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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"He's just a little unbalanced and lonely." He put his arms around my waist, frowning. "Can't he be lonely and unbalanced around someone else's girlfriend?" "I'll suggest it. ~Kiersten White
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world. ~Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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I didn't want to be anyone else. ~Gordon Waller
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Age is honorable and youth is noble. ~Irish Proverb
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them. ~Compton Mackenzie
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
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The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin. ~Pope Pius IX
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