When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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I'm very independent. ~Kate Bosworth
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I would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don't have an ethical obligation to pay taxes that you do not owe. In fact, you should be seeking ways to legally minimise your taxes. ~John Mackey
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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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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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin
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Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community. ~Simon Mainwaring
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True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety. ~Rajneesh
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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Are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love? ~Cecelia Ahern
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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