In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb
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I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous. ~Mel Brooks
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians. ~James Herbert
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape. ~Angus Wilson
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~English Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation. ~Jack Steinberger
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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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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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Repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. ~Marianne Moore
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I enjoyed my life when I had nothing. and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. ~Joey Ramone
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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Eat little, sleep sound. ~Iranian Proverb
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Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. ~Pearl S. Buck
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