I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to. ~Chic Murray
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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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The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power. ~Ludwig von Mises
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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Conscience is the voice of the soul. ~Polish Proverb
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. ~Dan Brown
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees. ~John Mackey
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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There is something of a painting of a woman that represents all women; and by extension, all of humanity; that I just find very exciting. It is a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive. ~Will Cotton
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ~J. R. R. Tolkien
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
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