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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I am sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock. ~Ray Davies
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I want to take back at least half of the "I love you"s, because I didn't mean them as much as the other ones. ~David Levithan
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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I think I'm doing some good. Obviously, I don't need any more money. ~Joe Jamail
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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I try to work every day, even when I am not motivated. Ritual is very important to me. ~Mel Ramos
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I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer. ~Frank Sinatra
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. ~Camille Paglia
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that is largely because we have tried to keep our business small, and our management teams tight-knit. I feel that small, compact companies, are better run. That is partly because people feel more connected in small companies. ~Richard Branson
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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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Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something. ~Jerry Seinfeld
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese Proverb
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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. ~Pauline Kael
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If Barack Obama is elected, I will be moving out of the country. ~Stephen Baldwin
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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All artists are anarchists in some way; some more extreme than others, but it is something that I think artists are supposed to do. We are supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is as much as poetry, in my opinion. ~Robert Zemeckis
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned. ~Nizar Qabbani
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
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