Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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A promise is a debt. ~Proverb
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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb. ~Irwin Redlener
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive. ~William Shatner
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ~Teri Hatcher
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight. ~Len Goodman
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. ~Matthew Henry
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution. ~Luc Montagnier
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Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive. ~Kakha Bendukidze
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, "What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?" ~Matt Reeves
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