I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies. ~Charles XII of Sweden
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose. ~Warren Christopher
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ~Barbara Jordan
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Eat little, sleep sound. ~Iranian Proverb
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Whose diggeth a pit shall fall therein. ~Proverb
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If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor. ~Jennifer James
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Even the smallest of stars shines in the darkness. ~Swedish Proverb
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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Activity breeds prosperity. ~Kurdish Proverb
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I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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Contrary 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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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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Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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