You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony. ~Helen Nielsen
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I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company. ~Courtney B. Vance
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If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. ~Elton John
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Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill. ~S.M. Stirling
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Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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The rock-star thing became very destructive, like, wow. I didn't know what I was doing. I just kind of became that thing. The hair, that rock-star kind of lifestyle, just living a dream. It kind of took over. It started out very innocent and then I turned into a cartoon character. And I started to feel like a cartoon character. ~Pamela Anderson
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality. ~Dave Davies
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. ~Erich Fromm
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In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained by relations of pure causality, the construction of a machine can be understood neither without purpose nor without man. A machine is made by man and for man, with a view toward certain ends to be obtained, in the form of effects to be produced, a mechanical model of any phenomena is explanatory only so long as we take machines as already granted. ~Georges Canguilhem
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To eat off another man's plate. [To live on another's expense.] ~Juvenal
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination. ~Albert Einstein
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. ~Jerome Bruner
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