"Yes" actually means "No" 100% of the time, when the question is "Can I give you some advice?"
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"Keep up appearances whatever you do."
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"My top lady advice is to make eye contact early on - before introductions, even - and just never break it, no matter what she does. Keep that dead-eyed lock on her. Works like a charm."
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"Examples of selling of ideas are portrayed in consulting or paid advice, as the pricing of intellectual property is market driven."
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"Material things aside, we need not advice but approval."
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"Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases."
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"It is easier to give directions than advice, and more agreeable to have the right to act, even in a limited sphere, than the privilege to talk at large."
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"I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth."
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"...Seek counsel of very pious, disinterested persons, and follow the call of O[ur] L[ord] and the advice of those persons."
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"They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the only advice they can give."
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"The best piece of advice Ive ever been given was, Be in the business youre in. Dont just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business youre in."
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"Just as Lincoln got contradictory advice from the extremists of both sides . . . so now I have to guard myself against the extremists of both sides."
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"Youth doesn't take advice."
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"Be not a slave of words."
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"I try to avoid giving advice."
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"Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice."
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"The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'."
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"What's my credibility? Why are they looking to me for advice? Isn't there someone more qualified?"
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"Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you."
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"When you're traveling, ask the traveler for advice / not someone whose lameness keeps him in one place."
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