Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time, they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn. ~Thomas Friedman
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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Write in the sand the flaws of your friend. ~Pythagoras
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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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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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal. ~Benjamin Carson
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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