Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness. - Joseph Joubert

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What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear about this story<br>book and does this [marketing material] deliver that information?

Joseph Joubert

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

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I've come to believe that the simpler the title, the better. Whenever I try to get cute with it, it seems to be a problem but if it's just The 40-Year-Old Virgin, people seem to know what they're in for.

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Carol White

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Lauren Shuler Donner

The thematic core of X-Men is tolerance. It's that for those of us who are different in any way - in a big way - whether it's you're a minority, you're a woman, you're a Muslim, you are suppressed or marginalized; it can go the whole spectrum, but even if you are shy or you feel like an outsider, and X-Men are outsiders.

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[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.

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If we are to achieve long-range goals, we must learn to set up and accomplish short-range goals that will move us along the way. If we do not consciously select our goals, we may be controlled by goals not of our own choosing - goals imposed by outside pressures (such as the expectations of others) or by our habits (such as procrastination) or by our desire for the approval of the world.

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