Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff. ~Mindy Kaling
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The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult. ~Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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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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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish Proverb
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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