If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places. ~Fred Kent
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape. ~Angus Wilson
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian 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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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me. ~Joe Torre
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish 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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Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events. ~Ralph Marston
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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