Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. ~Sigmund Freud
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ~Mark Twain
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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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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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It always surprised me that I was getting acting work. ~Mary Lynn Rajskub
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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Health care is not about insurance! Health care is about getting treatment. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental. ~Henry Rollins
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns. ~Tom Hicks
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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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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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. ~Ted Williams
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Appetite comes with eating. ~French Proverb
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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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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me. ~Moon Unit Zappa
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships. ~Tom Robbins
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