If you want a friend, be a friend. ~English Proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. ~Michael Servetus
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I'm a much better mother at 46, than if I were like, 21 or 25. ~Halle Berry
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I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there is a better "Oklahoma!" someplace, a better "West Side Story." And I would like to be mixed up in it. ~Richard Rodgers
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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Did you see Howard Dean ranting and raving? Here is a little tip Howard; cut back on the Red Bull. ~David Letterman
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We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood, whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ~Thomas Friedman
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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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 harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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