Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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You think you are prepared. You think you have done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then, whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that will knock your little world off its axis. Something that will either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. ~James Michael
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you will create something magical that might be the best thing you have ever accomplished. ~Tori Amos
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Movements are as eloquent as words. ~Isadora Duncan
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man? ~Oriana Fallaci
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish 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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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive. ~William Shatner
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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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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
#quotes #michael-j-fox #nature #life #humility

Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories. ~Salma Hayek
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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