A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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In Mallrats, you pretty much don't see him sell any weed, really. I don't consider him a big dealer. ~Jason Mewes
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. ~Jane Fonda
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. ~Elton John
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for, someone to whom you want to write another heartfelt, slanted, misspelled thank you note, do it. Tell them they made you feel loved and supported. That they made you feel like you belonged somewhere and that you were not a freak. Tell them all of that. Tell them today. ~Lisa Jakub
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A picture is worth a thousand words. ~English Proverb
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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb
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Open access is good, but we have to have ways and means where content that has been generated with a lot of effort and cost also gets the chance to monetise itself as is now beginning to happen in the West where some publications are really beginning to make their internet revenue lines and subscription revenue lines quite significant. ~Raghav Bahl
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U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market. ~Henry Paulson
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