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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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school. ~Valentino Garavani
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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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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian 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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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. ~Ferdinand Mount
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The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive. ~George Santayana
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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready. ~Nancy E. Turner
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I like my raps, but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better. But every time I hear my flow on that song I wow myself. ~Tyler The Creator
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The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that, women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves. ~Louise Otto-Peters
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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Will is stronger than fact; it can mold and overcome fact. ~H. G. Wells
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is amazing how many people beat you at golf now that you are no longer president. ~George H. W. Bush
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia. ~Jason Aldean
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, "Overwhelming feeling of dread." That was going to go over nicely. ~Anne Ursu
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