My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ~Ice T
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive. ~William Shatner
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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They don't make coats for this kind of cold. ~Ryan Adams
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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Weep now, but tomorrow be strong. Remember who we are and that whatever else is taken from us, they will never strip our honour and our pride. ~Elizabeth Chadwick
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. ~John Podhoretz
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If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places. ~Fred Kent
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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If you chase two rabbits, you catch none. ~Confucius
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The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent. ~David Lloyd
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What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations. ~Harry A. Blackmun
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A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ~American Proverb
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
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