Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both. ~Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. ~Charles Caleb
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For me, I've always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it. ~Justin Bartha
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Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me. ~Joe Torre
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I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music. ~Simon Cowell
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first. ~Tom Hiddleston
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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
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My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds. ~Annie Leibovitz
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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Eating people is wrong. ~Michael Flanders
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that. ~U.G. Krishnamurti
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish Proverb
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Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they are not teaching because of the financial rewards. ~John Engler
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The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy. ~Missy Franklin
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Your prosperity will only grow as fast as you do. ~Randy Gage
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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I think I'm doing some good. Obviously, I don't need any more money. ~Joe Jamail
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught. ~Agnes Repplier
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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