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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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, "What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?" ~Matt Reeves
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When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it. ~Kim Yuna
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
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