The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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Honesty is the best policy. ~English Proverb
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Laughter is the best medicine. ~Modern Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ~Frank Black
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Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. ~Lionel Hampton
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world. ~Jack Nicholson
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Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~Corey Ford
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down. ~Young Buck
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The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive. ~George Santayana
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for, someone to whom you want to write another heartfelt, slanted, misspelled thank you note, do it. Tell them they made you feel loved and supported. That they made you feel like you belonged somewhere and that you were not a freak. Tell them all of that. Tell them today. ~Lisa Jakub
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We cannot come to honour under coverlet. ~George Herbert
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I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people. ~Morton Gould
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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I got into real estate very much by accident. ~Jeff Greene
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A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do. ~Warren Spahn
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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