No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements, people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts, are fatal. ~Ward McAllister
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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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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind. ~Francis Bacon
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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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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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. ~Frank B. Kellogg
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I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese 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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My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart; I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. ~Tony Parsons
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Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person. ~Louise Slaughter
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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