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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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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I know just how isolating it can feel to experience severe anxiety. ~Zoe Sugg
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A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ~American Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. ~Native American Proverb
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal. ~Benjamin Carson
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is something of a painting of a woman that represents all women; and by extension, all of humanity; that I just find very exciting. It is a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive. ~Will Cotton
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But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. ~Nancy Farmer
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A good companion shortens the longest road. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do. ~Warren Spahn
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