Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose. ~Warren Christopher
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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If I die, I forgive you. If I live, we shall see. ~Spanish Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film. ~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases. ~Ron Wyden
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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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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