Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth. ~Madeleine Albright
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress. ~Shimon Peres
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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East and West are coming together. Whether in peace or anarchy; they are coming together. There need not be a clash between East and West, between Islam and Europe. ~Orhan Pamuk
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I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East. ~Bernie Sanders
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Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours. ~Brendan Fraser
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. ~Ayn Rand
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. ~Terence McKenna
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The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power. ~Ludwig von Mises
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations. ~Harry A. Blackmun
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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