The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~Thomas Jefferson
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~George Bernard Shaw
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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Blood is thicker than water. ~English Proverb
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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