By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. ~John Podhoretz
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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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 mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained, this is free. ~Veronica Roth
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We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church. ~Johnny Hunt
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~Thomas Jefferson
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The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that, women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves. ~Louise Otto-Peters
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. ~Ferdinand Mount
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone. ~William Beveridge
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Fame is a magnifying glass. ~English Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations. ~Gavin de Becker
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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good. ~George Archer
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Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe. ~Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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