Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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You have got to have a problem that you want to solve, a wrong that you want to right. ~Steve Jobs
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. ~Paul Cezanne
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If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. ~Elton John
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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ~Charles Churchill
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
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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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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get. ~Junot Diaz
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~Chinese Proverb
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
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