Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. ~Caleb Cushing
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog. ~Robert Fulghum
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Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ~Joichi Ito
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
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Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along? ~Peter Schuyler
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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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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Weep now, but tomorrow be strong. Remember who we are and that whatever else is taken from us, they will never strip our honour and our pride. ~Elizabeth Chadwick
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me. ~Anna Kournikova
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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