I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught. ~Agnes Repplier
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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. ~Pauline Kael
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I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that. ~Stella McCartney
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. ~Jose Saramago
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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Truly, the sword inspires dread even in its scabbard. ~Arabic Proverb
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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Blood is thicker than water. ~English Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. ~Terence McKenna
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I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies. ~Amy Adams
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. ~Dan Savage
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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