We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland Proverb
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ~John Mortimer
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If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes. ~Nguyen Cao Ky
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company. ~Courtney B. Vance
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All actors are looking for that role that is going to define who they are. When it happens, it is a good thing. ~Jeffrey Pierce
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Good things come to those who wait. ~English Proverb
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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor. ~Ray Liotta
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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. ~Maya Angelou
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. ~George Burns
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
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The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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