Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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proverbiosWhen you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful! ~Soren Kierkegaard
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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The necessity for "professionals" in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged. ~Jason Alexander
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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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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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish Proverb
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success; such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. ~Nikola Tesla
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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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