A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene. ~Grimes
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make 'em go. ~William J. Clinton
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
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But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no. ~Barack Obama
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Only the crystal clear question yields a transparent answer. ~Zen Proverb
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone. ~William Beveridge
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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What kind of knife is this? Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this. ~Scott Lynch
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~English Proverb
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Sometimes in life, a fog sets in and you don't know which way is the right direction. Every voice may tell you it's not going to happen, but God has placed a promise in your heart. Refuse to listen to those voices. Keep believing. ~Joel Osteen
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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