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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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proverbiosWhen you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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In Mallrats, you pretty much don't see him sell any weed, really. I don't consider him a big dealer. ~Jason Mewes
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. ~Bernadette Devlin
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time. ~Jerry Bridges
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy. ~Sebastian Faulks
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste. ~Rick Danko
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday. ~John Clayton
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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