The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations. ~Sue Kelly
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. ~Imelda Marcos
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Because all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen. ~Holly Goldberg Sloan
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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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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away. ~Proverb
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. ~Camille Paglia
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Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after. ~Peter Stuyvesant
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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