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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If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure. ~Coco Austin
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew 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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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ~Wendell Willkie
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I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at themselves and say, "I've made mistakes, I'm off course, I need to change." Which is probably the hardest thing for a human being to do, and maybe that's why it interests me so. ~Joss Whedon
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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"Feminist comedy," practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. ~Grace Slick
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts. ~George Miller
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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