Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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Hope springs eternal. ~American 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
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
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True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety. ~Rajneesh
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To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor. ~Paul A. Baran
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A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ~American Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else. ~Sarah Lacy
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. ~Terence McKenna
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The most dangerous food a man can eat is a wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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