Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains. ~Hobart Brown
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that. ~U.G. Krishnamurti
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes. ~Nguyen Cao Ky
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. ~Maya Angelou
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. ~Frank B. Kellogg
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I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. ~George Burns
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ~Taoist Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day. ~Dennis Miller
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In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. ~Bobby Rahal
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Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree. ~Polish Proverb
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I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation. ~Jack Steinberger
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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. ~Jerome Bruner
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