Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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In our post 9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy. ~Mike Rogers
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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It is so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything. ~Nicole Miller
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After all the evidence is in, after you've run all the facts by everything you know, and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. ~Christopher Moore
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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You think you are prepared. You think you have done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then, whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that will knock your little world off its axis. Something that will either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. ~James Michael
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In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you will create something magical that might be the best thing you have ever accomplished. ~Tori Amos
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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[The raindrops] played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. ~Gary D. Schmidt
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All artists are anarchists in some way; some more extreme than others, but it is something that I think artists are supposed to do. We are supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is as much as poetry, in my opinion. ~Robert Zemeckis
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive. ~William Shatner
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