U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market. ~Henry Paulson
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect! ~Jonathan Richman
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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Even if you're not going anywhere, do not get in the way. ~Jose Bergamin
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese 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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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese Proverb
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