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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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ~Valerie Simpson
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If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not; you are not smiling about it. ~Wynton Marsalis
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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro. A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain. The passion of the gale. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy. ~Bono
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The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. ~Robert Smithson
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns. ~Tom Hicks
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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"Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts." ~John Green
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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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The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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