Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details. ~Daniel Dennett
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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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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish 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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When I am in situations where I break out of the pattern, it's hard on me. Once you get used to regular scripture study, you miss it if you don't have it. It's like food; you have to have it. I know that I need the scriptures like I need food. I don't miss a regular meal, and I don't miss regular scripture study. ~Henry B. Eyring
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight. ~Len Goodman
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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday. ~Jerry B. Jenkins
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise. ~Simon Cowell
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An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~Proverb
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men. ~Coco Chanel
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to. ~Lou Brock
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I don't know if I have a legacy, but I will say that I'm proud of the fact that I'm from a small town in a small state and I've had more than a small impact. ~Tinker Hatfield
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. ~Jose Saramago
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I definitely have two Olympics in me; I don't know about three Olympics. ~Gracie Gold
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I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns. ~Tom Hicks
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