Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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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 natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ~Charles Evans Hughes
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Open access is good, but we have to have ways and means where content that has been generated with a lot of effort and cost also gets the chance to monetise itself as is now beginning to happen in the West where some publications are really beginning to make their internet revenue lines and subscription revenue lines quite significant. ~Raghav Bahl
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success; such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. ~Nikola Tesla
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me. ~Grandma Moses
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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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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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
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