A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

Author: Kevin Kelly

Author: Kevin Kelly

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With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you’re parodying.

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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

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The relentless desire to give is evidence of love.

Author: Mensah Oteh
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To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune but to write and read comes by nature.

Author: William Shakespeare
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Knowing the answer is knowledge and knowing the question is wisdom.

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The more Mommy blogs going nuclear over playground etiquette I read and birthday parties of glazed a

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Being a writer is 1% inspiration, 50% perspiration and 49% explaining you're not a millionaire like

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The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.

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A cell is just a room if you don't lock the door.

Author: Haruki Murakami
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Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.

Author: Ayn Rand
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. . and so it is that A Sensei may impart his knowledge of the martial Way and nurture your fighting

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Put the fire out? Hell no. What we need to do is stoke it.

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Author: Fran Lebowitz
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I miss you in the maddening noise of crowd,I hear your laughter at my folly with sweet indifference,

Author: Debatrayee Banerjee
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Look to the East where up the lucid sky The morning climbs! The day shall yet be fair.

Author: Celia Thaxter
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Living for your purpose warrants eternal blessings

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Gerard doesn't tell me what to do. We discuss everything as a couple, as I imagine most partners do.

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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Author: Unknown
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His veins were dark with a vivid belladonna tincture, the essence of jealousy.

Author: Charlotte Brontë
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I have nothing to offer you otherthan the undying love of my broken Heart.

Author: Angivel of Zanarcadia
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After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.

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We win some, we lose some, but there is always some.

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You know what I think? I think you've picked up the Nazi idea that Jews can't create. That they can

Author: Philip K. Dick
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Someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in tranquility, is a fool and a liar. To unders

Author: Harold Brodkey
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Every person with ADHD already knows that destination addiction is part of their disorder. However,

Author: Shannon L. Alder
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My grandfather was a duck trapperHe could do it with just dragnets and ropesMy grandmother could sew

Author: Bob Dylan
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Beauty, happiness, they're things so big they can't capture them with their scientific words. It's l

Author: Heather Anastasiu
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Sometimes we take action, sometimes we take pills.

Author: Fall Out Boy
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The worst defeat of all is to surrender without having been defeated. And it is Christmas that oblit

Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough
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It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties esta

Author: Molly Ivins
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He was glad to be human. For sure, it was a great inconvenience to have to walk on two legs and wear

Author: Haruki Murakami
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It seemed to Karina further proof that wartime was the only time the world became as simple and carn

Author: Omar El Akkad
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Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the l

Author: Wayne Gerard Trotman
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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

Author: Lillian Hellman
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Make Time daily to focus on what Happiness means to you, we can't Achieve, what we can't Conceive!

Author: Darwun St. James
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And so it had been going on week after week. Month after month. That was what was so discouraging, t

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As I did, there, in perfect condition, to be admired by five sets of wondering eyes, was an enormous

Author: Brother Andrew
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The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mothe

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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every pebble in the roa

Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Pain is not there to hurt you, but it is there to make you more aware and alert.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can't assume there is a lot of time to do what you li

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I had to be strong, for every man and woman in our fair community was here to witness my beloved bei

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My head is full of fireand grief and my tongueruns wild, piercedwith shards of glass.

Author: Federico García Lorca
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Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer.Memories r not recycled lik

Author: Lady Gaga
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The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence brief

Author: Bill Maher
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After fight club you're so relaxed, you just cannot care.

Author: Chuck Palahniuk
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When I was a child, I believed that those stars were knights in silver armor protecting the universe

Author: M.B. Mohan
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Author: Emily Dickinson
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The action of a thing is the same as the naming of it - is, in fact, the real name. The trees creak

Author: Jesse Ball
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Better world's when we change by simulating the technology NOT the Homo sapiens

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But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is

Author: Paulo Coelho
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When you live by the demands and supply of life, your life becomes easily predictable.

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Your choices are made in a moment, and yet their consequences transcend a lifetime.

Author: M.J. DeMarco
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When I returned to New York, it had already changed. I always wished things could just remain.

Author: Hannah Lillith Assadi
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I would be consumed by you,' she said, and blinked her eyes furiously when she felt them fill with t

Author: Mary Balogh
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In order to get [Mean Streets] made I had to learn how to make a movie," says Scorsese. "I didn't le

Author: Peter Biskind
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Ellie: "You could lie to me. You could tell me to be encouraged, that good will triumph over evil."R

Author: Joan Bauer
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Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

Author: Joanna Field
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When you're depressed and you think of killing yourself. Stop. If you're afraid to talk about your p

Author: Rochelle A.
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Intelligence is Attractive,Kindness is Heart Melting,But a combination of the two is Irresistible.

Author: Drishti Bablani
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One can never have enough socks

Author: J.K. Rowling
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With resentment, hearts burn in the fire of hatred. With forgiveness, hearts dance with pure joy.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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Prayer is a conversation between two people who love each other -you and the Lord-and you don't have

Author: Cheri Fuller
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Planned obsolescence isn't a new idea - God always used it with people.

Author: Robert Orben
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Make'em laugh make 'em cry make 'em wait.

Author: Charles Reade
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Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

Author: William Feather
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I really am into crystals. I'm a real positive thinker. I believe in creative visualisation.

Author: Victoria Beckham
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The reverse gear of time is the mind!

Author: Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Apathy's just a front. People offer it when there's something stronger hiding underneath. You have t

Author: Guy Mankowski
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My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the wo

Author: Bruce Dickinson
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The power of the Will in a man, is favoured by the Heavens. The man who sets his Heart and Word onto

Author: C. JoyBell C.
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I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little.[Exemplifying humi

Author: Luis Federico Leloir
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Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.

Author: Maureen Corrigan
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This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your

Author: Sarah Ruhl
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Let them travel freely, from heart to lips.Feelings they are, don't cut them off at tips.

Author: Drishti Bablani
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When you looked out my window you could see the whole city crouched under a blanket of car smog.

Author: Markus Zusak
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It's better to move on now and feel a pinch, than hold on and later treat a wound

Author: Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana
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Never be afraid to cry. Sometimes, nothing can cleanse the heart more than a few wet tears.

Author: Donald L. Hicks
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The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to who

Author: Fidel Castro
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The hardest part of life is living it.

Author: Kinsey
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Those who say traveling is expensive, are just ill-informed.

Author: Maria Angelova
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Life is less a burden without an absolute quest for material possessions

Author: Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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[They] pervert the course of nature [by saying] the sun does not move and that it is the earth that

Author: John Calvin
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It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing attainable thing

Author: John Green
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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them

Author: Victor Hugo
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I’ve been thinking a lot about legacies lately. Life seems to be a waste without someone to share it

Author: LaShawnda Jones
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I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been

Author: Patsy Kensit
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We all can't be Rich, but we can be civilized human beings to each other.

Author: Saleem Durrani
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On my pillow was a note that read: "Everyday the mood gets jealous of the sun, but once the night co

Author: Hope Alcocer
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There is an end to everything.

Author: Unknown
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Find a part of yourself hidden in the twilight.

Author: Fennel Hudson
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In this life, you should read everything you can read. Taste everything you can taste. Meet everyone

Author: Mario Cuomo
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The scraps of information she’d gathered knocked against each other, like balls in a pinball machine

Author: Sara Sheridan
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A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wonderin

Author: José Martí
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I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Colonel Henry Blake, a surgeon: "I can paint a barn with someone else's blood. I just can't stand to

Author: Unknown
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When your car rattles when you drive, you know you are playing cool music.

Author: Glenn Danzig
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In never-ending efforts to defeat incumbent officeholders in hard times, the public is perpetuating

Author: Thomas E. Mann
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Respect, wealth, property, friendship, even love. Did I expect to simply fall over each of them as I

Author: Chris Murray