As we continue to fight the war on terror, we express our gratitude to our troops whose valor over the last three years provided freedom to the Iraqis, while protecting our liberty here at home. ~Tim Murphy
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At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. ~Robyn Davidson
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I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different. ~Mike Pence
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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Empathy is even better than talking in one language. ~Rumi
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. ~Daniel Burnham
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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The sermon is now the true poppy of literature. ~David Swing
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. ~Nnamdi Azikiwe
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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Every great story seems to begin with a snake. ~Nicolas Cage
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I live in the moment. ~Amy Sedaris
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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What kind of knife is this? Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this. ~Scott Lynch
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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