A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. ~Epictetus
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The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
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We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are. ~Lauryn Hill
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. ~Benazir Bhutto
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You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after. ~Taylor Swift
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You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations. ~Gavin de Becker
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Don't give advice unless you're asked. ~Amy Alcott
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I admit that, my wife is outspoken, but by whom? ~Sam Levenson
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I didn't want to be anyone else. ~Gordon Waller
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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A friend in need is a friend indeed. ~Chinese Proverb
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours. ~Brendan Fraser
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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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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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I can't say I'm one way or the other because I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is. ~Evan Rachel Wood
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Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work. ~Christophe Beck
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