A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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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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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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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 have accepted fear as a part of life; specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~Erica Jong
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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The maxims of men disclose their hearts. ~French Proverb
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly. ~John Spence
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She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver wasn't that man. Not to her. He was the boy who'd cried over his dead mother, the young man who'd lost himself in drink and women to forget the past, the marquess who'd vowed not to marry for money. He was the man to be her lover. ~Sabrina Jeffries
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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. ~Pauline Kael
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Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength; not his weaknesses; to place him immediately on the defensive. ~Mark McKinnon
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. ~Matt Chandler
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I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation. ~Nate Silver
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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