Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto'o but he is 32 years old; maybe 35, who knows? ~Jose Mourinho
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We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood, whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ~Thomas Friedman
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In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. ~Seth Godin
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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The end never comes when you think it will. It is always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. ~Lena Dunham
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese 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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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor. ~Jennifer James
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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