A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish 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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God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision. ~Charles Stanley
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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too. ~Kelley Armstrong
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead. ~Harry Enfield
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose. ~Warren Christopher
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me. ~Grandma Moses
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I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies. ~Charles XII of Sweden
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
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I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor. ~Ray Liotta
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. ~Margaret Heffernan
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All the stars that never were, are parking cars and pumping gas. ~Dionne Warwick
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The superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness. ~Chinese Proverb
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. ~Benazir Bhutto
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You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. ~Norbert of Xanten
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chicken. My mom always made home-cooked meals. We always sat down at the dinner table as a family. ~Haylie Duff
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I never really thought about becoming a professional musician. ~John Mayall
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