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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~Corey Ford
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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proverbiosA man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. ~Edward Snowden
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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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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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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A lot of people are simply interested in exploring their own spirituality, their own values, who they are, whether they're happy where they are. ~James Redfield
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian 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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