If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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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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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~Will Durant
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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I promote a healthy lifestyle. ~Kim Kardashian
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If someone were to say, "Well, what would you have done differently?" I'd say, "Nothing." I think you need to make mistakes. ~Kim Kardashian
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness; and there is a big difference. ~Ty Cobb
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The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. ~Richard Reti
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that is largely because we have tried to keep our business small, and our management teams tight-knit. I feel that small, compact companies, are better run. That is partly because people feel more connected in small companies. ~Richard Branson
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready. ~Nancy E. Turner
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that. ~Stella McCartney
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond. ~Ken Follett
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~English Proverb
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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