Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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We need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts. ~Stephen King
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We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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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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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at all times. Many times in history there has been complete disagreement between the two branches of the Government, and in these disagreements sometimes the Congress has won and sometimes the President has won. But during the administration of the present President we have had neither agreement nor a clear-cut battle. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (Vino Veritas) ~Pliny the Elder
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It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. ~Richard Dawkins
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People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. ~Peter O'Toole
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ~John Desmond Bernal
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