Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details. ~Daniel Dennett
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. ~Ronald Dworkin
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
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People have to be free to investigate computer security. People have to be free to look for the vulnerabilities and create proof of concept code to show that they are true vulnerabilities in order for us to secure our systems. ~Edward Snowden
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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Honesty is the best policy. ~English Proverb
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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A friend in need is a friend indeed. ~Chinese Proverb
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