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That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.: Felicia Day, Geek and Sundry, State of the Sundry, 03-25-13
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.: Baltasar Gracian
Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.: Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
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The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.: Jim Bishop, New York Journal-American, March 14, 1959
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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), letter to Mary A. Hulbert, September 21, 1913
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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.: Norman Douglas
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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.: A. R. Ammons
And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.: Whitney Young (1921 - 1971)
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Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.: Mike Myers
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.: Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
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A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.: Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939), ''Jam-Tomorrow' Progressives,' New Republic, December 15, 1937
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.: Rodney Yee
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Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.: Sidney J. Harris
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Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.: Albert Guerard
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Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.: Arab Proverb
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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Exemplary Novels (1613)
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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.: Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)