Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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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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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today. ~R. A. Salvatore
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Most clients expect experience design to be a discrete activity, solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a single research study. It must be an ongoing effort, a process of continually learning about users, responding to their behaviors, and evolving the product or service. ~Dan Brown
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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I love to work, so give me what you have got. I will play a tree, if you want me to. If you want fruit on it, then pay me more money. Otherwise, I just love to work. ~Danny Trejo
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men. ~Coco Chanel
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. ~Amelia Earhart
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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