If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone. ~Daniel Keys Moran
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed, can let their veins run cold. ~Wilfred Owen
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Sorrow is brief but joy is endless ~Friedrich Schiller
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. ~Norbert of Xanten
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. ~John Podhoretz
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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The world will be balanced when we are balanced. ~Tarthang Tulku
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States. ~Peter Camejo
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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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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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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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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On mobile, what are the core apps? It's basically messaging, mapping and review data. ~Jeremy Stoppelman
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
#proverbs #moroccan-proverbs #life

I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots. ~Derek Jeter
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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