All of the good, weird stories I've written are based on things I've dredged out of my subconscious. That's the real stuff. Everything else is fake. ~Ray Bradbury
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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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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As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course. ~Barack Obama
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I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don't like the writing, I don't like acting. I think in some ways everything starts for me from the place of writing. ~Greta Gerwig
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is. ~Mos Def
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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Who does not thank for little, will not thank for much. ~Estonian Proverb
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All artists are anarchists in some way; some more extreme than others, but it is something that I think artists are supposed to do. We are supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is as much as poetry, in my opinion. ~Robert Zemeckis
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There is no place like home. ~English Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well. ~Bob Brown
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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