If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty. ~Ned Rorem
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As we continue to fight the war on terror, we express our gratitude to our troops whose valor over the last three years provided freedom to the Iraqis, while protecting our liberty here at home. ~Tim Murphy
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation. ~Robert Dold
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. ~Spanish Proverb
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There's a degree of deception in silence. ~Don Lemon
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
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I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom. ~Pierre Corneille
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene. ~Grimes
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. ~Spanish Proverb
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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