Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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We are actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself. ~Linda Gray
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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Virtue is its own reward. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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Music is the eye of the ear. ~Thomas Draxe
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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says. ~Dick Cheney
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. ~Bobby Rahal
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair. ~Viktor E. Frankl
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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