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Quote by Gerald Brenan
We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can

We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. – Gerald Brenan

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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself. – Gerald Brenan

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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. – Gerald Brenan

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Bores
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In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. – Gerald Brenan

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Butterflies
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. – Rabindranath Tagore

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Butterflies

Love is like a butterfly: It goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes. – Author Unknown

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Butterflies

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar. – Anton Chekhov

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Butterflies

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. – Carl Sagan

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I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On. – Sting

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You had to make a camera look like its traveling at 300 mph, but you couldnt make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering. – John Dykstra

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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. – Aristotle

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I met Woz when I was 13, at a friends garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together. – Steve Jobs

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