Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture. ~Joyce Meyer
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. ~Jerome Bruner
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. ~Jane Fonda
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro. A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain. The passion of the gale. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Do not do what you will have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb
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Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations. ~Harry A. Blackmun
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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Time gives good advice. ~Proverb
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ~Mark Twain
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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund "Obamacare." They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the "Obamacare" program. ~Paul Ryan
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When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing. ~Illinois Jacquet
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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