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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Every proverb speaketh sooth; dreams and omens mask the truth. ~Welsh Proverb
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I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at themselves and say, "I've made mistakes, I'm off course, I need to change." Which is probably the hardest thing for a human being to do, and maybe that's why it interests me so. ~Joss Whedon
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African 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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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English 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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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~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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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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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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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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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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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb. ~Irwin Redlener
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