Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true. ~Rick Riordan
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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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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment. ~Ann Macbeth
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins. ~Chinese Proverb
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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. ~Hans Kung
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. ~Ferdinand Mount
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We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true. ~Akhil Sharma
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human. ~Elie Wiesel
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. ~Imelda Marcos
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For mercy has a human heart; pity, a human face; and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. ~William Blake
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
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