To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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I love documentaries and the computer. I am a little addicted to the computer, and that relaxes me. I find information, I shop, and I look up people I worked with to find out if they're dead or alive. ~Anne Meara
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. ~Rumi
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Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. ~Tilda Swinton
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both. ~Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent. ~David Lloyd
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. ~Leigh Bardugo
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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I am sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock. ~Ray Davies
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"Why do you give me cars?" "It's fun," Ranger said. "And it keeps you safe. Do you want to know why keeping you safe is important to me?" "You love me?" "Yes." A sigh inadvertently escaped. "We're really screwed up, aren't we?" "In a very large way," Ranger said. ~Janet Evanovich
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go. ~Charles Bukowski
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man? ~Oriana Fallaci
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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