The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work. ~Hanneli Mustaparta
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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The First Amendment only says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." It can disrespect all it wants. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ~William James
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water. ~Jim Costa
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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My only scheme was to be a rapper. ~Eminem
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff. ~Mindy Kaling
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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