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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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"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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"If you really want to feel the life, use not your umbrella! Touch the truth directly!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"When there are no clouds in the sky, under the beautiful sunshine, remember the rain and repair your umbrella!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella-no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye." »Jean Kerr
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"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain." »Mark Twain
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"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain." »Robert Frost
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"When you are caught in the heavy rains of anger, open the umbrella of mind, take refuge under the roof of reason!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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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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"Carry your bag by yourself; carry your umbrella by yourself; open your door by yourself; light your own candle! Do your job by yourself! Don’t use others! Don’t behave like a king, don’t behave like a queen! Be humble!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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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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"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest." »J. G. Holland
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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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"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 know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks and it can't fly very high." »Wilbur Wright
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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 a nest, the spider a web, man friendship." »William Blake
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"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." »Miguel de Cervantes
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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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"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp." »John Berry
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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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"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." »Unknown
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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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