If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power. ~Ron Paul
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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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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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool. ~Mark Webber
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. ~Robert Scheer
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand. Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle. ~Heather Brewer
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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 society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says. ~Dick Cheney
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For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition. ~Joe Scarborough
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do. ~Warren Spahn
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His rod reversed, and backward mutters of dissevering power. ~John Milton
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Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday. ~Jerry B. Jenkins
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James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond. ~Ken Follett
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