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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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. ~Tom Robbins
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I am fortunate in that I am a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ~Paul Kane
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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The silent dog is the first to bite. ~German Proverb
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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for, someone to whom you want to write another heartfelt, slanted, misspelled thank you note, do it. Tell them they made you feel loved and supported. That they made you feel like you belonged somewhere and that you were not a freak. Tell them all of that. Tell them today. ~Lisa Jakub
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as "don't make a mistake." And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out. ~Bernard L. Schwartz
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I have always been really scared of scary movies just because I live by myself; and then seeing something, then having a big imagination and then like thinking you see it in the middle of the night. So I've never been really into them. ~Ashley Tisdale
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When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing. ~Illinois Jacquet
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Theatre is where my heart is. It is where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that is what I want to come back to. ~Kelly Reilly
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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Every proverb speaketh sooth; dreams and omens mask the truth. ~Welsh Proverb
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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