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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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proverbiosThere are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.
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No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle. ~Jodi Picoult
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I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
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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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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle; people trying to connect with each other. ~Spike Jonze
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste. ~Rick Danko
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ~Judith Martin
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Gardening is a humbling experience. ~Martha Stewart
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit. ~Dorothy Thompson
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Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive. ~Robert Kiyosaki
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I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus. ~Don Zimmer
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Write in the sand the flaws of your friend. ~Pythagoras
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