When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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The First Amendment only says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." It can disrespect all it wants. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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The Senate is now considering increasing government subsidies for corn growers to produce more ethanol. If we produce enough ethanol we can postpone our next invasion of a Middle Eastern country for two to three years. ~Jay Leno
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For me, poetry is always a search for order. ~Elizabeth Jennings
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I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight. ~Len Goodman
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing. ~Tom Jenkinson
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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It is objective evaluations that give our hardwiring principles teeth and drive the organization toward results that last. ~Quint Studer
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Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along? ~Peter Schuyler
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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I have accepted fear as a part of life; specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~Erica Jong
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I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. ~Jon Scieszka
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me. ~Grandma Moses
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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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