A silent mouth is melodious. ~Irish Proverb
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The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. ~Robert Edison Fulton
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
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I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. ~Alain Robert
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I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get. ~Junot Diaz
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Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive. ~Robert Kiyosaki
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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In a moment, we hope to see the pole vault over the satellite. ~David Coleman
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ~Dag Hammarskjold
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing. ~Tom Jenkinson
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ~Paulo Coelho
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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"Why aren't you dead?" Will demanded. ~Cinda Williams Chima
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At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means. ~Gerry Adams
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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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