The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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If I die, I forgive you. If I live, we shall see. ~Spanish Proverb
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she is cheered on and supported. ~Sheryl Sandberg
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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I love to work, so give me what you have got. I will play a tree, if you want me to. If you want fruit on it, then pay me more money. Otherwise, I just love to work. ~Danny Trejo
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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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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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. ~John Polkinghorne
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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"Alien" asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. "The Matrix" delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing. ~Jason Reitman
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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