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"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something." »Richard Feynman
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"If you are an executioner, don't expect to have a friend closer than a gallows!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I don't say that the bird is 'good' or the bat is 'bad.' But I will say this At least the bird is less nude." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise." »Ivan Pavlov
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"When the wind stops, kite falls but bird flies; because bird did not borrow the wind when rising!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!" »John Burroughs, Birds and Poets, 1887
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"The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song" »John Burroughs
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"There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits almost motionless, pushing at the keyboard with one finger. As a learning environment, it may be mentally rich, but it is perceptually extremely impoverished. No smells or tastes, no wind or bird song (unless the computer is programmed to produce electronic tweets), no connection with soil, water, sunlight, warmth, the actual learning environment is almost autistic in quality, impoverished sensually, emotionally, and socially." »John Davy
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"I know why the caged bird sings." »Maya Angelou
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"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers." »Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
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"I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks and it can't fly very high." »Wilbur Wright
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"God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest." »Swedish Proverb
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"Each bird loves to hear himself sing." »Arapaho Proverb
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"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest." »J. G. Holland
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"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship." »William Blake
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"Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way." »Goethe
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"bird cage is nice only when it is empty!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!" »Jerry Van Amerongen, Ballard Street, 08-18-05
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"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp." »John Berry
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"That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed." »Robert Heinlein, Time Enough For Love
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"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." »Unknown
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"A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song." »Chinese Proverb
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"If I could be a bird, I think I'd be a penguin, because then I could walk around on two feet with a lot of other guys like me." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"People think it would be fun to be a bird because you could fly. But they forget the negative side, which is the preening." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark." »Rabindranath Tagore
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"A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return." »Jewish Proverb
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"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance." »e e cummings
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"A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places; they can never soar up to those unrivaled heights." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from the bow of a ship without ever having felt sorry for itself." »D. H. Lawerence
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