People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both. ~Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Death closes all doors. ~English Proverb
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Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change. ~Mitch Kapor
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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Do not do what you will have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying. Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help ~Donald Miller
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Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members. ~St. Vincent
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Love gives life within. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish Proverb
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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Easy come, easy go. ~English Proverb
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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