After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese 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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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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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~English Proverb
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~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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Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work. ~Christophe Beck
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So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is. ~Stephen Chbosky
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for. ~Brian Lamb
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Sure it's a big job, but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ~John F. Kennedy
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ~Barbara Jordan
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~Thomas Jefferson
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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