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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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proverbiosContrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength; not his weaknesses; to place him immediately on the defensive. ~Mark McKinnon
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish proverb
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
#quotes #barack-obama #government #economy
The silent dog is the first to bite. ~German Proverb
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A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem. ~Christina Romer
#quotes #christina-romer #economy
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ~Joichi Ito
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world. ~Jack Nicholson
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Braniac dumb-dumbs, bust the scientifical.
Approach to the course and the force is centrifugal. Can you find your way through the lyrics that be catching them? Throw another rhyme across the room, they be fetching them. ~Masta Ace
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You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. ~Norbert of Xanten
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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