I have noticed that people tend to stop maturing when they start self-medicating. Everyone has very tough seasons of life, but by persevering through them we have an opportunity to mature and grow as people. Those who self-medicate, often thwart maturity as they escape the tough seasons of life rather than face them. ~Mark Driscoll
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I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says. ~Dick Cheney
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If Barack Obama is elected, I will be moving out of the country. ~Stephen Baldwin
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To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. ~Proverb
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. ~Indian Proverb
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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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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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican 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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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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There will be many times in your lives; at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up; when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed. ~Julie Andrews
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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Will is stronger than fact; it can mold and overcome fact. ~H. G. Wells
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease. ~David Hyde Pierce
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