Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees. ~John Mackey
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If you're "stuck" right now, you're probably into fear. Get out of there. You've already looked both ways. Now cross the street, for heaven sake. The cars have long since gone. The coast is clear. Your only obstacle now is your own mind. ~Neale Donald Walsch
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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
#proverbs #yoruban-proverbs #beauty

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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An angry man is full of poison. ~Confucius
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Because all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen. ~Holly Goldberg Sloan
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ~Taoist Proverb
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
#quotes #carl-von-clausewitz #war #military

We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
#quotes #dodinsky #friendship

Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
#quotes #virginia-postrel #family #children #work

The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
#quotes #michael-stipe #athens

Seeing is believing. ~Chinese Proverb
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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment; that is not the Islamic way. ~Naguib Mahfouz
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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Did you see Howard Dean ranting and raving? Here is a little tip Howard; cut back on the Red Bull. ~David Letterman
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