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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If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it! ~Estelle
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Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for. ~Brian Tracy
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Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary. ~Ben Nelson
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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I am horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad. ~Sam Trammell
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. ~Ronald Reagan
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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The term "genre" eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. ~Christopher Nolan
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ~John Mortimer
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ~William Griffith Wilson
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What exists is a godly existence, a divine existence. God not as a person but as a presence certainly exists. But to understand that presence, you have to understand your own inner presence first, because it is from there that you can take off, it is from there that you can have the first glimpse of what godliness is. If you have not known yourself you will never know God. ~Rajneesh
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You have got to have a problem that you want to solve, a wrong that you want to right. ~Steve Jobs
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible. ~Moby
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Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength; not his weaknesses; to place him immediately on the defensive. ~Mark McKinnon
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Weep now, but tomorrow be strong. Remember who we are and that whatever else is taken from us, they will never strip our honour and our pride. ~Elizabeth Chadwick
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Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease. ~Jim Rohn
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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I am sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock. ~Ray Davies
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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