Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks. ~Steven Rattner
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes. ~Samuel Adams
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They were close to the end of the beginning... ~Stephen King
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Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time. ~Jerry Bridges
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German 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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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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Three things see no end. A flower blighted ere it bloomed. A message that was wasted. And a journey that was doomed. ~Mercedes Lackey
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"Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts." ~John Green
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion. ~Germaine Greer
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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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Love's in need of love today, don't delay; send yours in right away. ~Stevie Wonder
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ~Imogen Cunningham
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go. ~Charles Bukowski
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Do not look for evil. Look for the goodness of God all around you. As you look for signs of His presence, many more opportunities will occur for you to bless people and share God's true nature. ~Graham Cooke
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress. ~Jean Bertrand Aristide
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~Jorge Luis Borges
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Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after. ~Peter Stuyvesant
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