The people of Chicago are a proud people; and for good reason. ~Jane Byrne
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be. ~Anna Kendrick
#quotes #anna-kendrick #marriage #divorce

What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. ~Ronald Dworkin
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy. ~Missy Franklin
#quotes #missy-franklin #sports #happiness

Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
#quotes #abraham-maslow #king #future

No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle. ~Jodi Picoult
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I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East. ~Bernie Sanders
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We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. ~Matt Chandler
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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