The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. ~Ayn Rand
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
#quotes #janet-fitch

For mercy has a human heart; pity, a human face; and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. ~William Blake
#quotes #william-blake #human #love

The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone. ~Charles Ghigna
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Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture. ~Joyce Meyer
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs #death #respect

Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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I'm living the dream. ~David Petraeus
#quotes #david-petraeus #dream #happiness

Better late than never. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs #time

They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
#proverbs #mexican-proverbs #perspective

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
#quotes #katherine-jenkins #mistakes #music

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. ~Junior Seau
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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Blue eyes say, "Love me or I die." Black eyes say, "Love me or I kill thee." ~Spanish Proverb
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In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained by relations of pure causality, the construction of a machine can be understood neither without purpose nor without man. A machine is made by man and for man, with a view toward certain ends to be obtained, in the form of effects to be produced, a mechanical model of any phenomena is explanatory only so long as we take machines as already granted. ~Georges Canguilhem
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs #wisdom

Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change. ~Richard Lamm
#quotes #richard-lamm #democrat #politics

Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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