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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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland Proverb
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When I walk down the runway, my main goal is to not think about the people watching. The idea of all eyes on me would make me too uncomfortable. As I step on the runway, I take a deep breath, focus on a point in the distance, and go! ~Gisele Bundchen
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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching. ~Steve Waugh
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. ~George McGovern
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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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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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