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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
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randomHealth care is not about insurance! Health care is about getting treatment. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. ~Galileo Galilei
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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proverbiosMy teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart; I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. ~Tony Parsons
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress. ~Shimon Peres
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian 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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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well. ~Bob Brown
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
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