The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
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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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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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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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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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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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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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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Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly. ~John Spence
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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder. ~John D. Rockefeller
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ~Dag Hammarskjold
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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I don't know if I have a legacy, but I will say that I'm proud of the fact that I'm from a small town in a small state and I've had more than a small impact. ~Tinker Hatfield
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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