Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
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Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ~James Madison
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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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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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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They don't make coats for this kind of cold. ~Ryan Adams
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I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night. ~Charles Spurgeon
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I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for. ~Brian Lamb
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin
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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success; such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. ~Nikola Tesla
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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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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish 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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