Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. ~John Calvin
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question. ~Bill Keller
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When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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"He's just a little unbalanced and lonely." He put his arms around my waist, frowning. "Can't he be lonely and unbalanced around someone else's girlfriend?" "I'll suggest it. ~Kiersten White
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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Earth to Democrats; displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move. ~Monica Crowley
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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My real heroes have always been sports-writers. ~Dan Jenkins
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth. ~Gary Taubes
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I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus and humans. I'm very interested in how we evolved so suddenly, which obviously ties in with the alien thing. ~Al Jourgensen
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese Proverb
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