I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing; my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. ~Gary Kemp
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To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. ~Gilbert Newton Lewis
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored. ~Stanley B. Prusiner
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. ~Ayn Rand
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go. ~Wayne McGregor
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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You are playing worse and worse every day and right now you are playing like it's next month. ~Herb Brooks
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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