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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Plato

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LawUnderstandingThanMightier

All indications are that three and a half billion years ago, Mars looked like Earth. It had lakes. It had rivers. It had river deltas. It had snow-capped peaks and puffy clouds and blue sky. Three and a half billion years ago, it was a happening place. The same time on Earth, that's when life started. So did life start on Mars?

John M. Grunsfeld

LifeTimeSkyBlueRiverClouds

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

Maurice Chevalier

WomenRelationshipMenWitAlways

They're trying to beat out this movie, the Ring, which is a similar idea. Our movie is about a website you visit and die in three days. Their movie is about a videotape you watch - and die in three days.

Stephen Dorff

DieTryingYouWebsiteThreeRing

People think all fame is the same, but being on BBC Two from time to time does not make you Warren Beatty. I honestly can't impress that upon people enough.

Stephen Merchant

TimePeopleThinkEnoughYouFame

I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.

Rory Bremner

PeopleMeImpressionIdeaNo Idea

You have to learn how to be married. You have to learn to love somebody.

Ruby Dee

LoveLearnYouTo LoveSomebodyHow

When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

Rumi

SomeoneDustRugAgainstBeats

I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing.

Maryanne Wolf

DayWorryWayMoreUsRead

Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.

Mary McDonnell

LifeExperiencePeoplePerformance

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Miguel de Cervantes

FearEyesSeeThingsUnderground

You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't.

Michael Moore

YouDebateSatireGetEither

While some of my closest friends were jocks, it seemed that they spoke a different language with each other. Joining in their conversation was fraught with risk.

Mo Rocca

LanguageFriendsConversationRisk

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