Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ~Taoist Proverb
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Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained. ~Aaron Burr
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~Gaston Bachelard
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I am too pure for you or anyone. ~Sylvia Plath
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you do not wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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If you weren't pretty, it wouldn't matter what you said or didn't say. That's why you're getting this attention. ~Miesha Tate
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart; I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. ~Tony Parsons
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all. ~Nancy Sinatra
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men. ~Coco Chanel
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~George Bernard Shaw
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. ~Max Eastman
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way. ~Harvey Fierstein
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
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