All life is rife with possibilities. Seeds have possibilities, but all their tomorrows are caught by the patterning of their life cycle. Animals have possibilities that are greater than that of a fir tree or a blade of grass. Still, though, for most animals, the pattern of instinct, the patterns of their lives, are very strong. Humanity has a far greater range of possibilities, especially the very young. Who will children grow up to be? Who will they marry, what will they believe, what will they create? Creation is a very powerful seed of possibility. ~Patricia Briggs
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story. ~Scott Rudin
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ~American Proverb
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If you want a friend, be a friend. ~English Proverb
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A live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ~John Shelton Reed
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours. ~Brendan Fraser
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years; the longest in the world. ~Robert Jarvik
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