The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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Activity breeds prosperity. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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Seeing is believing. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish 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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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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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish 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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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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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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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all. ~Nancy Sinatra
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I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies. ~Anna Kournikova
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