One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at all times. Many times in history there has been complete disagreement between the two branches of the Government, and in these disagreements sometimes the Congress has won and sometimes the President has won. But during the administration of the present President we have had neither agreement nor a clear-cut battle. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the tide of evil that surrounds us. ~Howard W. Hunter
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French 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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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~Plato
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In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human. ~Elie Wiesel
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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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"Why aren't you dead?" Will demanded. ~Cinda Williams Chima
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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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The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ~Valerie Simpson
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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says. ~Dick Cheney
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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I want to take back at least half of the "I love you"s, because I didn't mean them as much as the other ones. ~David Levithan
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ~J. R. R. Tolkien
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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