A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. ~Nnamdi Azikiwe
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, "What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?" ~Matt Reeves
#quotes #matt-reeves #childhood

A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
#proverbs #african-proverbs #nature

Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion. ~Archibald Hill
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid? ~Lynda Barry
#quotes #lynda-barry #children

I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible. ~Paul Michael Glaser
#quotes #paul-michael-glaser #70s #past #movies

All of the good, weird stories I've written are based on things I've dredged out of my subconscious. That's the real stuff. Everything else is fake. ~Ray Bradbury
#quotes #ray-bradbury #stories #subconscious

I am fortunate in that I am a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ~Paul Kane
#quotes #paul-kane #socializing

Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. ~Bernard of Clairvaux
#quotes #bernard-of-clairvaux #god

It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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