Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. ~Jimi Hendrix
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom. ~Paulo Freire
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Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. ~Bob Dylan
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught. ~Agnes Repplier
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese 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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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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Don't be afraid to hit the ball. ~Billie Jean King
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. ~William Osler
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition. ~Joe Scarborough
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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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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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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