Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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Nakata is empty inside. Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That is what scares me the most. ~Haruki Murakami
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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I live for now, not for what happens after I die. ~Liam Gallagher
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I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive; those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ~Osamu Dazai
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. ~Imelda Marcos
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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Health care is not about insurance! Health care is about getting treatment. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~Woody Allen
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund "Obamacare." They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the "Obamacare" program. ~Paul Ryan
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