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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Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow. ~Frank Dane
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid. ~Rafael Nadal
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. ~Edward Young
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications. ~Starhawk
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you; at any time. ~Harold Pinter
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message. ~James Patterson
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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A healthy man is a successful man. ~French Proverb
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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