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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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proverbiosStill water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Don't give advice unless you're asked. ~Amy Alcott
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican 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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (Vino Veritas) ~Pliny the Elder
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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
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There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives. ~James Bovard
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I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life. ~Eva Mendes
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York. ~Haile Gebrselassie
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ~John Shelton Reed
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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