To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. ~Emily Bronte
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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Good things come to those who wait. ~English Proverb
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I think that's what makes a good rapper. Somebody who wants to push themselves and their audience further. ~Donald Glover
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head. ~Proverb
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A secret is like a dove, when it leaves the hand, it takes wings. ~Saudi Proverb
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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. ~Hans Kung
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There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible. ~Moby
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood, whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ~Thomas Friedman
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In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish 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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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, the positive pronounce without dismay. ~William Cowper
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
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If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places. ~Fred Kent
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same. ~Malcolm Forbes
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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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I'm a very direct person and, sometimes, when I want something, I will push it until I get it. But, it's OK. It's not as bad as some people. When I have an idea in my head, I'm pretty stubborn. ~Julie Delpy
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