Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. ~Richard Dawkins
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person. ~Paolo Sorrentino
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn't it comforting to know God isn't ever broken? He isn't ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next. ~Lysa TerKeurst
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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That's what acting is; it's about having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives. ~Kerry Washington
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for. ~Dash Mihok
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Every proverb speaketh sooth; dreams and omens mask the truth. ~Welsh Proverb
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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Sweet is the day of sacred rest;
No mortal cares shall seize my breast;
O may my heart in tune be found
Like David's harp of solemn sound. ~Isaac Watts
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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