I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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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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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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You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund "Obamacare." They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the "Obamacare" program. ~Paul Ryan
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. ~English Proverb
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice," Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true." She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. "Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth." ~Nora Roberts
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If you watch the first [Star Wars] movie, you don't actually know exactly what the Empire is trying to do. They're going to rule by fear; but you don't know what their endgame is. You don't know what Leia is princess of. You don't yet understand who Jabba the Hutt is, even though there is a reference to him. You don't know that Vader is Luke's father, Leia is his sister; but the possibility is all there. The beauty of that movie was that it was an unfamiliar world, and yet you wanted to see it expand and to see where it went. ~J. J. Abrams
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In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe; a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that has liquid water on the surface and where the gravity is just right for human beings and the atmosphere is perfect for them to breathe; where there are mountains and deserts and oceans and islands and forests and trees and birds and plants and animals and insects and people; lots and lots of people. Where there is life. Some of it, possibly, intelligent. ~Stephen Hawking
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The Senate is now considering increasing government subsidies for corn growers to produce more ethanol. If we produce enough ethanol we can postpone our next invasion of a Middle Eastern country for two to three years. ~Jay Leno
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Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me. ~Joe Torre
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence. ~Jay Duplass
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For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition. ~Joe Scarborough
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