A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying. Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help ~Donald Miller
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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Sweet is the day of sacred rest;
No mortal cares shall seize my breast;
O may my heart in tune be found
Like David's harp of solemn sound. ~Isaac Watts
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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If I die, I forgive you. If I live, we shall see. ~Spanish Proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund "Obamacare." They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the "Obamacare" program. ~Paul Ryan
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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. ~Benazir Bhutto
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When I walk down the runway, my main goal is to not think about the people watching. The idea of all eyes on me would make me too uncomfortable. As I step on the runway, I take a deep breath, focus on a point in the distance, and go! ~Gisele Bundchen
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ~Dag Hammarskjold
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You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving. ~Ted Olson
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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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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I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus. ~Don Zimmer
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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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There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth. ~Gary Taubes
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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