I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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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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It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out. ~Derek Jeter
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ~Charles Churchill
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations. ~Harry A. Blackmun
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained by relations of pure causality, the construction of a machine can be understood neither without purpose nor without man. A machine is made by man and for man, with a view toward certain ends to be obtained, in the form of effects to be produced, a mechanical model of any phenomena is explanatory only so long as we take machines as already granted. ~Georges Canguilhem
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ~American Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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