An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
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I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. ~Dan Savage
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Health care is not about insurance! Health care is about getting treatment. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question. ~Bill Keller
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored. ~Stanley B. Prusiner
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Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. ~Margaret Heffernan
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder. ~John D. Rockefeller
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Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese. ~Suzanne Collins
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music. ~Nick Cave
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. ~Michele Bachmann
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There is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference there is, is very important. ~William James
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Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people; not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene. ~Dierks Bentley
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It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation. ~Robert Dold
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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. ~George McGovern
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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