And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. ~Paul Cezanne
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours. ~Brendan Fraser
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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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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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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ~Indian Proverb
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies. ~Paul Cook
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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My dad in particular, I tend to use; I call him "The Brain." If he's accessible, I'd rather put it through his brain. My wife, Melissa, maintains that the closer he is in proximity to me, the less I think for myself. And I think she's actually correct. So anything worth mulling over, I will mull over with my father, and that includes ratings. ~Joshua Malina
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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. ~Abe Fortas
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Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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