Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ~William James
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As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard. ~Gena Showalter
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. ~Irvine Welsh
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Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan proverb
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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances. ~Bryan Adams
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The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure. ~Coco Austin
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same. ~Barbara Kingsolver
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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You would think that Freddy Couples' Nick Price would be the team to beat, but I'll tell you in skins, it's a matter of just hitting it at the right time. ~Fuzzy Zoeller
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A picture is worth a thousand words. ~English Proverb
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish proverb
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. ~Sigmund Freud
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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