Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive. ~Kakha Bendukidze
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Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~Corey Ford
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. ~Lionel Hampton
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress. ~Jean Bertrand Aristide
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia. ~Jason Aldean
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I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive; those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ~Osamu Dazai
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time, they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn. ~Thomas Friedman
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~Proverb
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known. ~Bryan Lee O'Malley
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work. ~Hanneli Mustaparta
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