It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life. ~Adam Brody
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe; a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that has liquid water on the surface and where the gravity is just right for human beings and the atmosphere is perfect for them to breathe; where there are mountains and deserts and oceans and islands and forests and trees and birds and plants and animals and insects and people; lots and lots of people. Where there is life. Some of it, possibly, intelligent. ~Stephen Hawking
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~American Proverb
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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A good companion shortens the longest road. ~Kurdish Proverb
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. ~Charles Caleb
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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