Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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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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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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All artists are anarchists in some way; some more extreme than others, but it is something that I think artists are supposed to do. We are supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is as much as poetry, in my opinion. ~Robert Zemeckis
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Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Gautemalan Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~English Proverb
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. ~Jose Marti
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Your energy and enjoyment, drive and dedication will stimulate and greatly inspire others. ~John Wooden
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?" ~Brian Tracy
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape. ~Angus Wilson
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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Every proverb speaketh sooth; dreams and omens mask the truth. ~Welsh Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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