Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ~Charles Evans Hughes
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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Yes, God wants you to do signs and wonders. But the love of God manifested through you is what people really need. So you first must see His face. You must become so close to His very heartbeat that you can feel what others feel. ~Heidi Baker
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~English Proverb
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~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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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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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, "Who's that?" But this got me started in acting. ~James Stewart
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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