Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~Oliver Goldsmith
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear. ~Irish Proverb
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If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. ~George McGovern
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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What kind of knife is this? Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this. ~Scott Lynch
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ~Wendell Willkie
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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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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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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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. ~Oscar Wilde
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Everybody has talent, it is just a matter of moving around until you have discovered what it is. ~George Lucas
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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His rod reversed, and backward mutters of dissevering power. ~John Milton
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching "Coronation Street." ~Amelia Warner
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In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally. ~Vince Lombardi
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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