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• The only real person you need to know is you.

  Alice Cooper

  Real, Needs, Persons

  Song: Living, Album: Pretties For You, 1969

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• Sometimes you've got to fight when your a man.

  Kenny Rogers

  Fighting, Men, Sometimes

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• Everybody else shares the same cloudy sky.

  Joe Walsh

  Sky, Share, Cloudy Skies

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• Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.

  Bob Dylan

  Hours, Late

  'All Along the Watchtower' (1968 song)

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• If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.

  James Brown

  Trying, Firsts, First Time

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• It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline so cheap, nobody will fly it.

  Gordon Bethune

  Airline, Pizza

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• As the old African adage says, 'everybody skin to me ain't kin to me'. So you can't exclusively make that the criteria of your job selection and say that it's right when it's black and discrimination when it's white.

  T. D. Jakes

  Jobs, White, Black

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D'Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

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• I've always been the kind of person that doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line.

  Bob Dylan

  Finding Yourself, Lines, Kind

  Song: Brownsville Girl, Album: Knocked Out Loaded

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• It is an old, old adage that if you want someone to do something, get them to believe it is their idea. Humanity is mind controlled and onlyslightly more conscious than your average zombie. Far fetched? No, no. I define mind control as the manipulation of someone's mind so that they think, and therefor act, the way you want them to.

  David Icke

  Believe, Thinking, Average

  David Icke (1998). “The Biggest Secret”, David Icke Books

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• Love's the only goal, that can bring a peace to any soul.

  Robert Palmer

  Goal, Soul

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• The old adage, 'If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is' isn't always correct. In fact, the suspicion, cynicism, and doubt that are inherent in this belief can and does keep people from taking advantage of excellent opportunities.

  Richard Carlson

  Opportunity, People, Doubt

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Worry, Make Money: Spiritual and Practical Ways to Create Abundance and More Fun in Your Life”, Hyperion Books

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• The old adage which says that it is ‘whom you know that counts’ is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.

  Judith McNaught

  Differences, Mark, Knows

  Judith McNaught (2016). “Something Wonderful”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules. You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at least you´ve gone down fighting the good fight.

  Paul Auster

  Fighting, Winning, Hands

  Paul Auster (2008). “The Book of Illusions”, p.30, Faber & Faber

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• People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.

  Tim Ferriss

  Powerful, Successful, People

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• Time and tide wait for no man.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Inspirational, Birthday, Time

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• A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost.

  Thomas Huxley

  People, Cost, Worn

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• America is full of businesses bearing old Christian names, but which are really owned and run by Jews. Most of them have been acquired in the manner I have just described, the way the Jew creates something out of nothing (slow strangling). The Jew, better than anyone else in the world knows how to dispossess the poor and the members of the middle classes. To fit this case, the old P.T. Barnum adage needs only a little changing. A gentile enters business every minute, with two Jews waiting to take him out of it.

  Samuel Roth

  Christian, Running, Class

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• Make a destination of the greater truth.

  Bob Seger

  Destination, Greater

  Song: Rite Of Passage

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• As with many things in life-what we know at 30we wish we knew at 20-what we know at 40we wish we knew at 25and so on. 'If I knew then, what I know now' is the old adage that has been said for generations.

  Kim Mitchell

  Things In Life, Wish, Generations

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• "Our prosperity, our friends, our bondage and even our destruction are all in the end rooted in our tongue," says a famous adage.

  Krishnananda Saraswati

  Tongue, Prosperity, Awareness

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• Fools rush in, where wise men never go,
  But wise men never fall in love, so how are they to know?

  Johnny Mercer

  Love, Wise, Fall

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• It'll never go away until the fear you are running from is finally embraced.

  Garth Brooks

  Running, Going Away

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• Knowledge is the power, the cowards get devoured.

  Big Boi

  Coward

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• Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.

  Jackson Browne

  Laughter, Disappointment, Glasses

  Song: The Only Child, Album: The Pretender

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• Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.

  Paul McCartney

  Sometimes, Minutes

  Song: Silly Love Songs Reprise

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