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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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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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proverbiosI don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible. ~Paul Michael Glaser
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. ~Daniel Burnham
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story. ~Ian Somerhalder
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships. ~Tom Robbins
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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Honesty is the best privacy policy. ~Internet Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~Hippocrates
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
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Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. ~Mitch Kapor
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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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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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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A friend in need is a friend indeed. ~Chinese Proverb
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