"Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got."
-Josh Billings
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"The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.“
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"Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has."
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"Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe."
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"The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease."
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"Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread."
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"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."
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"There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface."
-Arianna Huffington
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"You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear."
-Candace Bushnell
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"I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context."
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"Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine."
-Camille Claudel
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"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."
-John B. S. Haldane
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"Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it."
-Lionel Richie
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