Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~George Bernard Shaw
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men. ~Coco Chanel
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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I don't trust a lot of journalists. ~Calvin Klein
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market, I have so many vintage pieces from there it is unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules. ~Kaya Scodelario
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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, the positive pronounce without dismay. ~William Cowper
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff. ~Mindy Kaling
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We can increase the frequency of guiding coincidences by uplifting every person that comes into our lives. Care must be taken not to lose our inner connection in romantic relationships. ~James Redfield
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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act. ~Ryszard Kapuscinski
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The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction. ~Ha-Joon Chang
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
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Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts. ~Soren Kierkegaard
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The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
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I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy. ~Naveen Jain
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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
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The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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