When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. ~Louis Dudek
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion. ~Eric Maisel
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. ~Ted Williams
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Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental. ~Henry Rollins
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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves. When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, presuming on their changeful potency. ~William Shakespeare
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ~Barbara Jordan
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message. ~James Patterson
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. ~Robert Smithson
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. ~Bernard of Clairvaux
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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The people of Chicago are a proud people; and for good reason. ~Jane Byrne
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent. ~David Lloyd
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