I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots. ~Derek Jeter
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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The end never comes when you think it will. It is always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. ~Lena Dunham
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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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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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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market. ~Henry Paulson
#quotes #henry-paulson #economy #united-states #china

Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
#quotes #eric-alterman #media #newspapers

Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. ~French Proverb
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The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests. ~Dorothy Denning
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More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases. ~Ron Kind
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish Proverb
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. ~Georges Bidault
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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