We usually don't look. We overlook. - Alan Watts

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My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and was folded over backwards on the top of my head!

Alan Watts

We usually don't look. We overlook.

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If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.

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. . . preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

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To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

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It's not just women in film, 18-year-old girls feel pressure to do preventative injecting. I see someone's face, someone's body who has had children and I think, they're the song lines of your experience, and why would you want to eradicate that? I look at people sort of entombing themselves and all you see is their little pin holes of terror. . . and you think, just live your life, death is not going to be any easier just because your face can't move.

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Derek Jacobi

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Will Rogers

You see, in Washington they have these bodies, Senate and the House of Representatives. That is for the convenience of the visitors. If there is nothing funny happening in one, there is sure to be in the other, and in case one body passes a good bill, why, the other can see it in time and kill it.

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Kate DiCamillo

Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.

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Bill Gates

Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.

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