Open access is good, but we have to have ways and means where content that has been generated with a lot of effort and cost also gets the chance to monetise itself as is now beginning to happen in the West where some publications are really beginning to make their internet revenue lines and subscription revenue lines quite significant. ~Raghav Bahl
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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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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Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way. ~Harvey Mackay
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins. ~Chinese Proverb
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg. I don't usually admit this publicly, because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it, to use it as a way of luring audiences in. ~Terry Gilliam
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You think you are prepared. You think you have done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then, whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that will knock your little world off its axis. Something that will either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. ~James Michael
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I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. ~Helen Mirren
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Your birthday will always be remembered in a special way, because you have brought so much happiness into the lives of those who are close to you. Happy birthday to you!
#birthday #cute

Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. ~French Proverb
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When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected. ~Tommy Shaw
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If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. ~Henry David Thoreau
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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes, and I loved it. ~Anne Lamott
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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