A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ~J. R. R. Tolkien
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My real heroes have always been sports-writers. ~Dan Jenkins
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they are not teaching because of the financial rewards. ~John Engler
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We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, "What is real?" Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power, that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. ~Philip K. Dick
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No matter what you do each day; or in life, doing things God's way is a matter of the heart. ~Elizabeth George
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Death is just life's next big adventure. ~J. K. Rowling
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Virtue is its own reward. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed. ~Azerbaijani Proverb
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