In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human. ~Elie Wiesel
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not. ~Leos Carax
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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It is extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now. ~Daniel Yergin
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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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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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well. ~Bob Brown
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No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven. ~Michio Kaku
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Blue eyes say, "Love me or I die." Black eyes say, "Love me or I kill thee." ~Spanish Proverb
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Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound. ~Carolina Herrera
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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If Barack Obama is elected, I will be moving out of the country. ~Stephen Baldwin
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
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