I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains. ~Hobart Brown
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. ~Billy Sunday
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ~Teri Hatcher
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Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result. ~Lyle Lovett
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. ~William Prescott
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Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise. ~Simon Cowell
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes. ~Nguyen Cao Ky
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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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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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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
#quotes #muriel-barbery #world

I think inspiration is always around; it is just a question of whether or not you are noticing it. ~John Green
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ~J. R. R. Tolkien
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change. ~Mitch Kapor
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed, can let their veins run cold. ~Wilfred Owen
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I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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