A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle; people trying to connect with each other. ~Spike Jonze
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Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught. ~Eric Ries
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go. ~Charles Bukowski
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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My husband and I go to Il Fico every Friday, and I get the whole-wheat pizza. I won't eat pizza anywhere else! ~Kelly Wearstler
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Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful. ~Babyface
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole. ~Peter Thiel
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing. ~Tom Jenkinson
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
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