Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease. ~Jim Rohn
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. ~Benazir Bhutto
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions. ~Aristotle
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. ~Sigmund Freud
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Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours. ~Brendan Fraser
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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If I die, I forgive you. If I live, we shall see. ~Spanish Proverb
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I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it. ~Paul McEuen
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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