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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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull. ~Brandon Sanderson
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What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. ~Robert Scheer
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. ~Spanish Proverb
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. ~Edmond About
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up. ~Susan Cain
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ~Milton Friedman
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. ~Robert Smithson
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. ~John Polkinghorne
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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