I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. ~Jewish Proverb
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb
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If I die, I forgive you. If I live, we shall see. ~Spanish Proverb
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom. ~Don Henley
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins. ~Chinese Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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I'm a little concerned I'm always going to be playing a black guy, you know what I'm saying? ~Dule Hill
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You're out on stage, the music is blaring, the crowd is screaming, the lights are flashing, your heart is pumping, the sweat is flying, and it's the greatest feeling in the whole world. ~Michael Flatley
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We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, "What is real?" Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power, that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. ~Philip K. Dick
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. ~Ronald Dworkin
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