It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~Indian Proverb
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ~Max Beerbohm
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I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy. ~Naveen Jain
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ~John Shelton Reed
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. ~Daniel Burnham
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice," Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true." She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. "Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth." ~Nora Roberts
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. ~Louis Pasteur
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree. ~Polish Proverb
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