The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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I don't know if I have a legacy, but I will say that I'm proud of the fact that I'm from a small town in a small state and I've had more than a small impact. ~Tinker Hatfield
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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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We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church. ~Johnny Hunt
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The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole. ~Arthur Capper
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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Life is tough, but it is tougher when you are stupid. ~John Wayne
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Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. ~Bob Dylan
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Are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love? ~Cecelia Ahern
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work. ~Hanneli Mustaparta
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. ~Gilbert Newton Lewis
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Align yourself with outstanding strategic partners. ~Carol Roth
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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth. ~Danielle Steel
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Every step of life shows much caution is required. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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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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Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they are not teaching because of the financial rewards. ~John Engler
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As far as I'm concerned, I did'nt dream; ever. ~Theodore Sturgeon
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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