Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ~Joichi Ito
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known. ~Bryan Lee O'Malley
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear. ~Irish Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same. ~Malcolm Forbes
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people; not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene. ~Dierks Bentley
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~Sam Shoemaker
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A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do. ~Warren Spahn
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In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story. ~David Morse
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault. ~Tanith Lee
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture. ~Joyce Meyer
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A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. ~Kathie Lee Gifford
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"Perfect justice rules the world" for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives. ~Iamblichus
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan proverb
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