As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course. ~Barack Obama
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men. ~Coco Chanel
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ~Dag Hammarskjold
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Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people; not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene. ~Dierks Bentley
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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As far as I'm concerned, I did'nt dream; ever. ~Theodore Sturgeon
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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