If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not; you are not smiling about it. ~Wynton Marsalis
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~Corey Ford
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Do not look for evil. Look for the goodness of God all around you. As you look for signs of His presence, many more opportunities will occur for you to bless people and share God's true nature. ~Graham Cooke
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Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. ~Margaret Heffernan
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that. ~Stella McCartney
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A live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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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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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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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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Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog. ~Robert Fulghum
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
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