War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment. ~Jim Jeffords
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing; my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. ~Gary Kemp
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I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
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Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. ~Giuseppe Garibaldi
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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Blue eyes say, "Love me or I die." Black eyes say, "Love me or I kill thee." ~Spanish Proverb
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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If the stock goes down we want to buy more. ~Walter Schloss
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A secret is like a dove, when it leaves the hand, it takes wings. ~Saudi Proverb
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The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained. ~Aaron Burr
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you. ~Bryce Harper
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From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. ~Stephen LaBerge
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese Proverb
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