Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb. ~Irwin Redlener
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People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. ~Peter O'Toole
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for, someone to whom you want to write another heartfelt, slanted, misspelled thank you note, do it. Tell them they made you feel loved and supported. That they made you feel like you belonged somewhere and that you were not a freak. Tell them all of that. Tell them today. ~Lisa Jakub
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The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole. ~Arthur Capper
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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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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ~Daisaku Ikeda
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At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means. ~Gerry Adams
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As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth. ~Gautama Buddha
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Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church. ~Johnny Hunt
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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There ain't no good guys, there ain't no bad guys, there's only you and me, and we just disagree. ~Dave Mason
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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