Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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For mercy has a human heart; pity, a human face; and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. ~William Blake
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies. ~Paul Cook
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary. ~Bernard Hopkins
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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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And by the way, showers. Look into them, Doug! ~Rachel Caine
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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. ~Max Eastman
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare Mel Gibson challenge the public by producing a film that spurs public discussion, that pushes the envelope, that takes an old story to a new level. How dare Mel Gibson follow his own passion as a filmmaker. How dare he make $20 million on the opening day box office! ~Laura Ingraham
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. ~Amelia Earhart
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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Beggars can't be choosers. ~English 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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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. ~Ronald Reagan
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets. ~J. K. Rowling
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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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Instinct is stronger than upbringing. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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