All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. ~Ted Williams
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I love documentaries and the computer. I am a little addicted to the computer, and that relaxes me. I find information, I shop, and I look up people I worked with to find out if they're dead or alive. ~Anne Meara
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Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit. ~Dorothy Thompson
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I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. ~Jessye Norman
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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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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible. ~Moby
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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You are only as old as you feel. ~English Proverb
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"Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts." ~John Green
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
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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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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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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape. ~Angus Wilson
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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