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  • Sidney Goff A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
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  • Alexander Pope A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Alexander Pope A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • E. B. White A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Carlos Gershenson A one-night-stander is someone who does not dare to explore the full potential of a relationship, just like a child who is afraid to go to the deep part of the pool. The latter does not want to learn how to swim, the former does not want to learn how to live.
    Source: Zire Notes May 2004 December 2006
    Carlos Gershenson
    Mexican author and academic (1978 - )
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  • Konrad Adenauer A thick skin is a gift from God.
    Konrad Adenauer
    German politician (1876 - 1967)
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  • Henrik Ibsen A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Anish Kapoor A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Billy Corgan Actually, I was having dinner with Michael (Stipe, of R.E.M.) when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid.' I'll never forget that.
    Source: Icon Magazine. April 1998
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Bono Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bonnie Bassler All these bacteria that coat our skin and live in our intestines, they fend off bad bacteria. They protect us. And you can't even digest your food without the bacteria that are in your gut. They have enzymes and proteins that allow you to metabolize foods you eat.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • E. B. White All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Alice Hoffman Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
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  • Constance Rourke An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
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  • Thomas à Kempis An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Alan Watts And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Arne Jacobsen And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Cesare Pavese At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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