Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
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Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. ~Mitch Kapor
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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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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies. ~Antoni Tapies
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I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl. ~Emily Mortimer
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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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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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It is objective evaluations that give our hardwiring principles teeth and drive the organization toward results that last. ~Quint Studer
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation. ~Thurston Moore
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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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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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Sorrow is brief but joy is endless ~Friedrich Schiller
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead. ~Harry Enfield
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