Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down. ~Young Buck
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Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along? ~Peter Schuyler
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. ~Ronald Reagan
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Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite. ~Dan Wells
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. ~William Prescott
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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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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Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly. ~John Spence
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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Nakata is empty inside. Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That is what scares me the most. ~Haruki Murakami
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Honesty is the best policy. ~English Proverb
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French 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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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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In our post 9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy. ~Mike Rogers
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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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Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person. ~Alana Stewart
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There is something of a painting of a woman that represents all women; and by extension, all of humanity; that I just find very exciting. It is a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive. ~Will Cotton
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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