Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision. ~Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
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Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed. ~Kent McCord
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Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength; not his weaknesses; to place him immediately on the defensive. ~Mark McKinnon
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland Proverb
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