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I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation. ~Nate Silver
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I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. ~Ron Perlman
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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proverbiosI was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all. ~Nancy Sinatra
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ~Judith Martin
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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Our problem with desire is that we want too little. ~C. S. Lewis
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions. ~Aristotle
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There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth. ~Gary Taubes
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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Honesty is the best policy. ~English Proverb
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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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