One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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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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If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for, someone to whom you want to write another heartfelt, slanted, misspelled thank you note, do it. Tell them they made you feel loved and supported. That they made you feel like you belonged somewhere and that you were not a freak. Tell them all of that. Tell them today. ~Lisa Jakub
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion. ~Eric Maisel
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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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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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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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What exists is a godly existence, a divine existence. God not as a person but as a presence certainly exists. But to understand that presence, you have to understand your own inner presence first, because it is from there that you can take off, it is from there that you can have the first glimpse of what godliness is. If you have not known yourself you will never know God. ~Rajneesh
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Conscience is the voice of the soul. ~Polish Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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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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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. ~Bernard of Clairvaux
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other. ~Jacqueline Novogratz
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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