Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography. ~Bill Wyman
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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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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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese 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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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ~Jacques Derrida
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. ~Pearl Bailey
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ~Daisaku Ikeda
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Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe. ~Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York. ~Roy Ayers
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Who are you? The band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say. ~Janet Fitch
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~English Proverb
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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