Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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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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Our problem with desire is that we want too little. ~C. S. Lewis
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. ~Benjamin Franklin
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Life sucks order from a sea of disorder. ~James Gleick
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I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive. ~Abraham Maslow
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We all know of course, that we should never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever fiddle around in any way with electrical equipment. Never. ~Daniel Handler
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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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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Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way. ~Billy Childish
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Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese. ~Suzanne Collins
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Age is honorable and youth is noble. ~Irish Proverb
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Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~English Proverb
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end. ~Emily Mortimer
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For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life, the lesson of your utter insignificance. ~Joseph Brodsky
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~Thomas Jefferson
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. ~Ivan Turgenev
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
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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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Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him; and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love. ~Alberto Moravia
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