One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations. ~Sue Kelly
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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A silent mouth is melodious. ~Irish Proverb
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It had run as a column; I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it. ~Robert Scheer
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ~Helen Suzman
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To the seeing eye life is mostly sparrows. ~Will Cuppy
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. ~Ferdinand Mount
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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I realized that even in a world of proliferating media venues, online and in print, and on TV and on countless cable channels, the idea that I could be considered an expert on chronic knee pain was I think troubling for society, but very exciting for me. ~John Hodgman
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events. ~Ralph Marston
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. ~Gary Ross
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone. ~Daniel Keys Moran
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland Proverb
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Search engine marketing and search engine optimization are critically important to online businesses. You can spend every penny you have on a website, but it will all be for nothing if nobody knows your site is there. ~Marc Ostrofsky
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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