Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks. ~Steven Rattner
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For mercy has a human heart; pity, a human face; and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. ~William Blake
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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It is amazing how many people beat you at golf now that you are no longer president. ~George H. W. Bush
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together. ~Willie Nelson
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What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. ~Jewish Proverb
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Gossip is hardly uplifting. ~Ginger Rogers
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love. ~Suzanne Collins
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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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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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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I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I would bring things to class that I had cooked at home. ~Giada De Laurentiis
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Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. ~Richard Dawkins
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way. ~Harvey Fierstein
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A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. ~Matthew Henry
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. ~Sylvia Plath
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race. ~Kirk Hammett
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