To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well. ~Edward Hallowell
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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There is no burnt rice to a hungry person. ~Philippine Proverb
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus and humans. I'm very interested in how we evolved so suddenly, which obviously ties in with the alien thing. ~Al Jourgensen
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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
#quotes #richard-owen #nature #charles-darwin

I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person. ~Paolo Sorrentino
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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For me, I've always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it. ~Justin Bartha
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is something of a painting of a woman that represents all women; and by extension, all of humanity; that I just find very exciting. It is a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive. ~Will Cotton
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If you care about the people you work with then you work harder. ~Kristine Lilly
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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I am a sensitive, sensitive person. Overly sensitive. Extremely emotional. ~Mary Lambert
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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
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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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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state. ~Benjamin Netanyahu
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My real heroes have always been sports-writers. ~Dan Jenkins
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