The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~English Proverb
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The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
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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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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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I always say to my Twitter followers to come to the stage door and meet me. What I love about being in the theatre, rather than filming, is that you meet your audience. ~Sheridan Smith
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The end never comes when you think it will. It is always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. ~Lena Dunham
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The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace. ~M. Scott Peck
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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. ~Phil Jackson
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For me, poetry is always a search for order. ~Elizabeth Jennings
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. ~Stephen Rea
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