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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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Human beings are a wonderful virus in some ways. ~Ansel Elgort
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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proverbiosA human heart that matched what we think of as heart-shaped; a perfectly formed bright red thing with two halves of equal size; would be one that was horribly diseased. The origin of this stylized representation is somewhat obscure, but it probably appeared at the same time as St. Valentine's Day, about whose history there is much dispute. ~George Fetherling
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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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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought. ~Dennis Bergkamp
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu 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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The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. ~Anne O'Hare McCormick
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. ~Amelia Earhart
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Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. ~Giuseppe Garibaldi
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Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday. ~Jerry B. Jenkins
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There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness. ~Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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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
#quotes #jim-jeffords #bush #environment
After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, "Overwhelming feeling of dread." That was going to go over nicely. ~Anne Ursu
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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