Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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In a relationship you have to open yourself up. ~Neil LaBute
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~American Proverb
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. ~Mitch Kapor
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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland Proverb
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In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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Death closes all doors. ~English Proverb
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