Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education. ~Melanie Griffith
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same. ~Barbara Kingsolver
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I stuck my tongue out at him because I was feeling exceptional mature. ~Janet Evanovich
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself. ~Truman Capote
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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like. ~Alexander Payne
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett. ~Al Franken
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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions. ~Aristotle
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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A penny saved is a penny earned. ~English Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I have picked myself up and gone on. ~Sharon Stone
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In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington; today it is 1 in 4. ~John Ensign
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves. ~Proverb
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Write in the sand the flaws of your friend. ~Pythagoras
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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