If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French 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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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. ~Jose Saramago
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I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people. ~Morton Gould
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English 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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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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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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Even if you're not going anywhere, do not get in the way. ~Jose Bergamin
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James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond. ~Ken Follett
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed. ~Azerbaijani Proverb
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Do not do what you will have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb
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I am kind of a grinder. I am a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights. ~Zach Johnson
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