The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~Phyllis Diller
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
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New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York. ~Michael Arad
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A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains. ~Hobart Brown
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The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein. ~Jerry Brown
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The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known. ~Bryan Lee O'Malley
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The people of Chicago are a proud people; and for good reason. ~Jane Byrne
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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to. ~Jackson Browne
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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for. ~Brian Lamb
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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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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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
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In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. ~Jerome Bruner
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She really mellowed me out that way. We both definitely grew with each other and with the whole experience. ~Brian Austin Green
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East. ~Bernie Sanders
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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances. ~Bryan Adams
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To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor. ~Paul A. Baran
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. ~Amelia Earhart
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