Everyday in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or else it will be killed. Everyday in Africa a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle or else it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.
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If a frog is placed in a container along with water from it's own pond, it will remain there, completely still, while the water is heated. The frog doesn't react to the gradual increase in temperature, to the changes in it's environment, and when the water reaches boiling point, the frog dies. However, if a frog is thrown into a container full of boling water it will jump right back out again, scalded but alive.
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Some people opt for revenge by trying to be really good at whatever it is others thought they couldn't do. However, most people accept their limitations. They grow up insecure and obedient (although they dream of a day when they'll be free and able to do whatever thay want) They get married to prove they are not as ugly as other kids said they were (although deep down they still believe they really are) They have children so that no-one can say they are infertile (even though they wanted kids anyway) They dress well so that no one can say they dress badly (although ...
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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.
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Sleep is a painting by Salvadore Dali. Here's what he has to say about it: Sleep is a truly monstrous chrysalis, it's morphology and nostalgia propped on 11 crutches, each of which is also a chrysalis and should be examined seperately. SPIRAL OF SLEEP Sleep as a huge heavy head with a long thin body balanced on the crutches of reality. If ever those crutches break we feel we are falling. It is the familiar sense of tumbling into a vast vacancy at that moment when sleep overcomes us. And when we suddenly awaken we may not necessarily always realise that we are reliving ...
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