Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish Proverb
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I stuck my tongue out at him because I was feeling exceptional mature. ~Janet Evanovich
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. ~Spanish Proverb
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out. ~Derek Jeter
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It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation. ~Robert Dold
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A silent mouth is melodious. ~Irish Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life. ~Katherine Jenkins
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Do not try and save yourself. The self that is trying to be saved is not you. ~Mooji
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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