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Miguel de Cervantes
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
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Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, 2004
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
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Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.
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Miguel de Cervantes
You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
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Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional?, 1993
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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Churton Collins
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
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Bob Dylan
When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.
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Child Age 13
I bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.
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Mother Theresa
Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
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Logan Pearsall Smith
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
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Conan Doyle
The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.
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Nicholson Baker
In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.
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