Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ~Charles Evans Hughes
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Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it. ~Confucius
#quotes #confucius #happiness

You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
#proverbs #friendship #cat

We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
#proverbs #dutch-proverbs #time #age #wisdom

Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit. ~Dorothy Thompson
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them. ~Compton Mackenzie
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
#quotes #michael-scheuer #prince #osama-bin-laden #united-states

If you want to know how much I miss you, try to catch rain drops. The ones you catch is how much you miss me, and the ones you miss is how much I miss you.
#love #romance #cute

The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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Every great story seems to begin with a snake. ~Nicolas Cage
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. ~William Hazlitt
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All of the good, weird stories I've written are based on things I've dredged out of my subconscious. That's the real stuff. Everything else is fake. ~Ray Bradbury
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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
#quotes #j-r-ward #ego

Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~Corey Ford
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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I mean, sometimes, a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing. ~Eddie Izzard
#quotes #eddie-izzard #acting #comedy

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now. ~Daniel Yergin
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