I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. ~Benazir Bhutto
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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You think you are prepared. You think you have done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then, whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that will knock your little world off its axis. Something that will either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. ~James Michael
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Earth to Democrats; displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move. ~Monica Crowley
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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Blood is thicker than water. ~English Proverb
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Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels. ~Kiefer Sutherland
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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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If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not; you are not smiling about it. ~Wynton Marsalis
#quotes #wynton-marsalis #black #culture

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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Are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love? ~Cecelia Ahern
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. ~Amelia Earhart
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
#quotes #frederick-lenz #buddhism