A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive. ~George Santayana
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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It had run as a column; I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it. ~Robert Scheer
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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The maxims of men disclose their hearts. ~French Proverb
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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No doctor is better than three. ~German Proverb
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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I love to work, so give me what you have got. I will play a tree, if you want me to. If you want fruit on it, then pay me more money. Otherwise, I just love to work. ~Danny Trejo
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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There ain't no good guys, there ain't no bad guys, there's only you and me, and we just disagree. ~Dave Mason
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes. ~Samuel Adams
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin. ~Arthur Godfrey
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend. ~Tony Snow
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Eat little, sleep sound. ~Iranian Proverb
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