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Life sucks order from a sea of disorder. ~James Gleick
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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proverbiosA wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
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Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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Sorrow is brief but joy is endless ~Friedrich Schiller
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along? ~Peter Schuyler
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made, but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was "ET," the second "Schindler's List," and third is "Saving Private Ryan". ~Steven Spielberg
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
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Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed. ~Azerbaijani Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing. ~Matt Damon
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