Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ~Zhu Rongji
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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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A forest is in an acorn. ~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
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As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth. ~Gautama Buddha
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. ~Michael Servetus
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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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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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him; and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love. ~Alberto Moravia
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Nakata is empty inside. Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That is what scares me the most. ~Haruki Murakami
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You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state. ~Benjamin Netanyahu
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English 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 felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
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