Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly. ~John Spence
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. ~Stephen LaBerge
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish 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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In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained by relations of pure causality, the construction of a machine can be understood neither without purpose nor without man. A machine is made by man and for man, with a view toward certain ends to be obtained, in the form of effects to be produced, a mechanical model of any phenomena is explanatory only so long as we take machines as already granted. ~Georges Canguilhem
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African 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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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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