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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Every decision you make is a mistake. ~Edward Dahlberg
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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A friend in need is a friend indeed. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every step of life shows much caution is required. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power. ~Ludwig von Mises
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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It is so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything. ~Nicole Miller
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Working with the likes of Joseph Fiennes was just an incredible experience. ~Alice Eve
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You think you are prepared. You think you have done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then, whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that will knock your little world off its axis. Something that will either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. ~James Michael
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Movements are as eloquent as words. ~Isadora Duncan
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I invented the cordless extension cord. ~Steven Wright
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I just can't sleep tonight knowing that things ain't right. ~Justin Bieber
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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I am not a fan of what we call "friendly fire" or "blue on blue." We don't want to have that. ~Tommy Franks
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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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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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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