The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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Honesty is the best policy. ~English Proverb
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. ~Michel de Montaigne
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God. ~Kelly Rowland
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act. ~Ryszard Kapuscinski
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I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~Phyllis Diller
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In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. ~Seth Godin
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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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An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~Proverb
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me ~Ray LaMontagne
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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If you want a friend, be a friend. ~English Proverb
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If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you do not wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
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