The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish 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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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are. ~Lauryn Hill
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