A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events. ~Lisa Ling
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story. ~Ian Somerhalder
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You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress. ~Shimon Peres
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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One sister for sale, one sister for sale, one crying and spying young sister for sale. I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding. Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isn't, there isn't there any one person who will buy this sister for sale. This crying spying old young sister for sale. ~Shel Silverstein
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ~Barbara Jordan
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known. ~Bryan Lee O'Malley
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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ~Paulo Coelho
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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If you chase two rabbits, you catch none. ~Confucius
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You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving. ~Ted Olson
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Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that. ~Paul Weyrich
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