A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. ~Caleb Cushing
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex. ~Warren Farrell
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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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Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously? ~Steve Stevaert
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies. ~Amy Adams
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size. ~Kurdish Proverb
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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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In a moment, we hope to see the pole vault over the satellite. ~David Coleman
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York. ~Roy Ayers
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It is harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next. ~Pink
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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