Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy. ~Bono
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ~James Madison
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Science is changing. God's Word does not change! ~Adrian Rogers
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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Time gives good advice. ~Proverb
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I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up. ~Jennifer Ellison
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. ~Sarah Michelle Gellar
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A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ~American Proverb
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is good for us to get into the Word, but it is much better for the Word to get into us. ~David J. Stewart
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
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Conscience is the voice of the soul. ~Polish Proverb
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I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing. ~Matt Damon
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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