Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, "What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?" ~Matt Reeves
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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We need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts. ~Stephen King
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You can't, Brooke, you can't leave. You're mine. ~Katy Evans
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While we teach, we learn. ~Seneca
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true. ~Rick Riordan
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ~Edith Wharton
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You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress. ~Shimon Peres
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I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says. ~Dick Cheney
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. ~John Polkinghorne
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In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored. ~Stanley B. Prusiner
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People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. ~Peter O'Toole
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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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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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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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I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene. ~Nicolas Cage
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