The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ~Daisaku Ikeda
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole. ~Peter Thiel
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
#quotes #michael-stipe #athens

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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One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
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I realized that even in a world of proliferating media venues, online and in print, and on TV and on countless cable channels, the idea that I could be considered an expert on chronic knee pain was I think troubling for society, but very exciting for me. ~John Hodgman
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school. ~David Bailey
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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