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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We can't afford as a nation; not because of money but because of our social fabric; to have large numbers of people who are not working. ~Donna Shalala
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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A friend in need is a friend indeed. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday. ~Jerry B. Jenkins
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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A healthy man is a successful man. ~French Proverb
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. ~Arthur Ashe
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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I will never ever sell Neverland. ~Michael Jackson
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life. ~Adam Brody
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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It is true that advertising often gives information and is valuable for doing so, but some forms of advertising give precious little information, and even that little is wrong. ~Randal Marlin
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There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way. ~Harvey Fierstein
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. ~Junior Seau
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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected. ~Jacki Weaver
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