If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~Will Durant
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In our post 9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy. ~Mike Rogers
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations. ~Harry A. Blackmun
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All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. ~Edward Snowden
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There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. ~Harry Blamires
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that. ~Stella McCartney
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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If I die, I forgive you. If I live, we shall see. ~Spanish Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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