People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. ~Michele Bachmann
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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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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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A guy who is crazily, madly in love with you. A guy who sees how incredible and amazing you are, even though you're not the cheerleader or even close to the prettiest girl in the school. A guy who thinks you're beautiful, just the way you are. ~Candace Bushnell
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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Good things come to those who wait. ~English Proverb
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me ~Ray LaMontagne
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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A picture is worth a thousand words. ~English Proverb
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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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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Honesty is the best policy. ~English Proverb
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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