There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth. ~Gary Taubes
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I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight. ~Len Goodman
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night. ~Charles Spurgeon
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It was like two different photographers, and shot in three different locations and it was really fun to do. There were 12 beautiful girls in it. It was great. ~Gisele Bundchen
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation. ~Nate Silver
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games. ~Lincoln Chafee
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Truly, the sword inspires dread even in its scabbard. ~Arabic Proverb
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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I am fortunate in that I am a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ~Paul Kane
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