The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ~William Griffith Wilson
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. ~Kenneth Scott Latourette
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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I am usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl. ~Hope Davis
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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. ~George McGovern
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Winning is everything in Hollywood. ~Olympia Dukakis
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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