Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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Ideas without execution are hallucinations. ~Thomas A. Edison
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good. ~George Archer
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. ~Bob Dylan
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I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that. ~David Kay
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You have got to have a problem that you want to solve, a wrong that you want to right. ~Steve Jobs
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In wintertime I like to wear flannel button down pyjamas, and in summer I prefer to wear, well; nothing. ~Phoebe Tonkin
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A lot of people are simply interested in exploring their own spirituality, their own values, who they are, whether they're happy where they are. ~James Redfield
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She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver wasn't that man. Not to her. He was the boy who'd cried over his dead mother, the young man who'd lost himself in drink and women to forget the past, the marquess who'd vowed not to marry for money. He was the man to be her lover. ~Sabrina Jeffries
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. ~George Burns
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ~Ice T
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me ~Ray LaMontagne
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
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I am not a fan of what we call "friendly fire" or "blue on blue." We don't want to have that. ~Tommy Franks
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Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb
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Let's be very clear, if you check the F.E.C. records you will see I am supporting George W. Bush. ~Roger Stone
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The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive. ~George Santayana
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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