Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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As we continue to fight the war on terror, we express our gratitude to our troops whose valor over the last three years provided freedom to the Iraqis, while protecting our liberty here at home. ~Tim Murphy
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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market. ~Henry Paulson
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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For me, poetry is always a search for order. ~Elizabeth Jennings
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff. ~Mindy Kaling
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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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I love documentaries and the computer. I am a little addicted to the computer, and that relaxes me. I find information, I shop, and I look up people I worked with to find out if they're dead or alive. ~Anne Meara
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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