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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And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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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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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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To be a team, you must be a family. ~Don Meyer
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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Most clients expect experience design to be a discrete activity, solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a single research study. It must be an ongoing effort, a process of continually learning about users, responding to their behaviors, and evolving the product or service. ~Dan Brown
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I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life. ~John Stamos
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I think when it comes to botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices. ~Debra Winger
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Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members. ~St. Vincent
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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If you were to open up a baby's head, and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should; you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland. ~Dave Barry
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men. ~Coco Chanel
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