In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. ~Jerome Bruner
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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I live for now, not for what happens after I die. ~Liam Gallagher
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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Talk to me when I am bored. Be with me when I am sad. Hug me when i cry. Care for me when I am sick. Don't ever cry for me when I die! Just treasure me when I am alive.
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We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love. ~Suzanne Collins
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I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
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Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work. ~Christophe Beck
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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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By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. ~John Podhoretz
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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All artists are anarchists in some way; some more extreme than others, but it is something that I think artists are supposed to do. We are supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is as much as poetry, in my opinion. ~Robert Zemeckis
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ~Ice T
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Conscience is the voice of the soul. ~Polish Proverb
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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