Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. ~Abba Eban
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I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to. ~Lou Brock
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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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You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state. ~Benjamin Netanyahu
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Because all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen. ~Holly Goldberg Sloan
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I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games. ~Lincoln Chafee
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. ~Indian Proverb
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Health care is not about insurance! Health care is about getting treatment. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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People are cooking less but obsessing about it more. ~Dougie Poynter
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#eating #cooking #obsession

Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive; those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ~Osamu Dazai
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It had run as a column; I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it. ~Robert Scheer
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