It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (Vino Veritas) ~Pliny the Elder
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian 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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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games. ~Lincoln Chafee
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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland Proverb
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Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well. ~Bob Brown
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment; that is not the Islamic way. ~Naguib Mahfouz
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it. ~Kim Yuna
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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