Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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Conscience is the voice of the soul. ~Polish Proverb
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There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth. ~Gary Taubes
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A live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ~Maria Monk
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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 most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are. ~Lauryn Hill
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company. ~Courtney B. Vance
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