I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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Write in the sand the flaws of your friend. ~Pythagoras
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday. ~John Clayton
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you. ~Bryce Harper
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo). ~Ibrahim Rugova
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Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful. ~Walter Huston
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I mean, sometimes, a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing. ~Eddie Izzard
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ~James Madison
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Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned. ~Nizar Qabbani
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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. ~Pauline Kael
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In Denmark, lots of people come up to me for autographs. ~Caroline Wozniacki
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Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom. ~Paulo Freire
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To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. ~Gilbert Newton Lewis
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life. ~Eva Mendes
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