The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be. ~Joe Sakic
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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On reflection, Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, this wasn't one of your better plans. ~Chris Wooding
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A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no. ~Barack Obama
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Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that is largely because we have tried to keep our business small, and our management teams tight-knit. I feel that small, compact companies, are better run. That is partly because people feel more connected in small companies. ~Richard Branson
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Never underestimate the power of wide-grip pull-ups to develop width and size. ~Ronnie Coleman
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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. ~John Calvin
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision. ~Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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Need teaches a plan. ~Irish Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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