Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians. ~James Herbert
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. ~Charles Caleb
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Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English Proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. ~Emily Bronte
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Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness; and there is a big difference. ~Ty Cobb
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught. ~Agnes Repplier
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The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Life sucks order from a sea of disorder. ~James Gleick
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It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation. ~Thurston Moore
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The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. ~Benjamin Franklin
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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