Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export. Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains an attractive idea; in fact, seductive. Its every failure is explained away as due to the inadequacies of particular leaders. ~Thomas Sowell
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at all times. Many times in history there has been complete disagreement between the two branches of the Government, and in these disagreements sometimes the Congress has won and sometimes the President has won. But during the administration of the present President we have had neither agreement nor a clear-cut battle. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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I make the girls jump like I am Kris Kross. ~Nicki Minaj
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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You know, when you start, especially with me, I did not really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater. ~Ludivine Sagnier
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Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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It is method on "This is England;" it is. But it can't be method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything. ~Vicky McClure
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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I want to take back at least half of the "I love you"s, because I didn't mean them as much as the other ones. ~David Levithan
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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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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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. ~English Proverb
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A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. ~Hebrew Proverb
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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Go to your duty, every man, and trust yourself to Christ; for He will give you all supply just as fast as you need it. You will have just as much power as you believe you can have. Be a Christian; throw yourself upon God's work; and get the ability you want in it. ~Horace Bushnell
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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