Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. ~John Calvin
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to. ~Chic Murray
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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 want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~Phyllis Diller
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way. ~Billy Childish
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the tide of evil that surrounds us. ~Howard W. Hunter
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If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens; men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls. ~Arthur Capper
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ~Barbara Jordan
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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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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better. ~Lucy Walker
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