A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ~Mark Twain
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Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture. ~Joyce Meyer
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It is amazing how many people beat you at golf now that you are no longer president. ~George H. W. Bush
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The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. ~Indian Proverb
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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I have a string of competitiveness in me. It's really strange cause it's not something that I would even expect myself to have, but every now and then it kinda sneaks out, you know. ~Hunter Hayes
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market, I have so many vintage pieces from there it is unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules. ~Kaya Scodelario
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions. ~Aristotle
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I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution. ~Luc Montagnier
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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There will be many times in your lives; at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up; when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed. ~Julie Andrews
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, the romance and you find out, you still care for the person.
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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