When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb
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The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up, it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together. ~Michael Light
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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 bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Achilles absent was Achilles still! ~Homer
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men. ~Coco Chanel
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In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion. ~Archibald Hill
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend. ~Tony Snow
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Health care is not about insurance! Health care is about getting treatment. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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One thing I like about Twitter is that you can hear it from the horse's mouth. ~Big Boi
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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process. I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult. ~Beth Gibbons
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There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self. ~Ralph Smart
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I had been up all night inventing the Camcorder. ~Al Gore
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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