Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength; not his weaknesses; to place him immediately on the defensive. ~Mark McKinnon
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Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive. ~Kakha Bendukidze
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland Proverb
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish 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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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ~Imogen Cunningham
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ~Wendell Willkie
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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There is no place like home. ~English Proverb
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. ~William Osler
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I invented the cordless extension cord. ~Steven Wright
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Yes, God wants you to do signs and wonders. But the love of God manifested through you is what people really need. So you first must see His face. You must become so close to His very heartbeat that you can feel what others feel. ~Heidi Baker
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian 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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Seeing is believing. ~Chinese Proverb
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A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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