He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ~James Madison
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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Love gives life within. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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We are actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself. ~Linda Gray
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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Time gives good advice. ~Proverb
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ~William James
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. ~Latin Proverb
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~Jorge Luis Borges
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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I'm happy that I was able to experience a normal life besides show business, because it gives you something to draw from. ~Ashley Tisdale
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