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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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I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I have picked myself up and gone on. ~Sharon Stone
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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proverbiosGiven the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they are not teaching because of the financial rewards. ~John Engler
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After all the evidence is in, after you've run all the facts by everything you know, and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. ~Christopher Moore
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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
#quotes #lee-hall #gardening #theatre
Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
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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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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow. ~Frank Dane
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ~American Proverb
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Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree. ~Polish Proverb
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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Every proverb speaketh sooth; dreams and omens mask the truth. ~Welsh Proverb
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