I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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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 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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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ~John Desmond Bernal
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination. ~Albert Einstein
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto'o but he is 32 years old; maybe 35, who knows? ~Jose Mourinho
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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Every proverb speaketh sooth; dreams and omens mask the truth. ~Welsh Proverb
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. ~Irvine Welsh
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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There is no burnt rice to a hungry person. ~Philippine Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. ~Proverb
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