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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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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LIFE equals Live In Full Effect! ~Joseph Simmons
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members. ~St. Vincent
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. ~Anne O'Hare McCormick
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ~John Desmond Bernal
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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