In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases. ~Ron Kind
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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Life is tough, but it is tougher when you are stupid. ~John Wayne
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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Health care is not about insurance! Health care is about getting treatment. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years; the longest in the world. ~Robert Jarvik
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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