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Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously? ~Steve Stevaert
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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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There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way. ~Harvey Fierstein
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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I'm a much better mother at 46, than if I were like, 21 or 25. ~Halle Berry
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. ~Sylvia Plath
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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proverbiosOnly if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ~American Proverb
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What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. ~Ronald Dworkin
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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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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. ~Roger Avary
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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