I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. ~Benjamin Franklin
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life. ~Tom Petty
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro. A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain. The passion of the gale. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~Corey Ford
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected. ~Jacki Weaver
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth. ~Gary Taubes
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~Hippocrates
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business. ~Bill Rancic
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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