I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies. ~Paul Cook
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~Indian Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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You are only as old as you feel. ~English Proverb
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese Proverb
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me. ~Chuck Mangione
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena? ~Dan Rather
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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