I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people. ~Morton Gould
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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Blood is thicker than water. ~English Proverb
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth. ~Madeleine Albright
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Conscience is the voice of the soul. ~Polish Proverb
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In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe; a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that has liquid water on the surface and where the gravity is just right for human beings and the atmosphere is perfect for them to breathe; where there are mountains and deserts and oceans and islands and forests and trees and birds and plants and animals and insects and people; lots and lots of people. Where there is life. Some of it, possibly, intelligent. ~Stephen Hawking
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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