Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb. ~Irwin Redlener
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and magazines, and with the new technology you can watch entire movies accompanied by audio commentary from the director. You can learn more from John Sturges' audio track on the "Bad Day at Black Rock" laserdisc than you can in 20 years of film school. Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it. ~Paul Thomas Anderson
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Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish Proverb
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More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases. ~Ron Kind
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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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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don't like the writing, I don't like acting. I think in some ways everything starts for me from the place of writing. ~Greta Gerwig
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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