Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well. ~Edward Hallowell
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. ~Ferdinand Mount
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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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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There is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference there is, is very important. ~William James
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Under the shadow of swords, any plan is good. ~Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world. ~Jack Nicholson
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Invest less at the end of the month. Brokers tend to push stocks at the end of the month in an effort to match or surpass their previous month's sales. ~Nancy Dunnan
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You can't, Brooke, you can't leave. You're mine. ~Katy Evans
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you do not wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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There is nothing Dutch about my architecture. ~Rem Koolhaas
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I have been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the no-fly zone. ~Philippe Perrin
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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