This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~Hippocrates
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ~Frank Black
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water. ~Jim Costa
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The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not. ~Leos Carax
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ~French Proverb
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If you were to open up a baby's head, and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should; you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland. ~Dave Barry
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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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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together. ~Willie Nelson
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It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out. ~Derek Jeter
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
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Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~Sam Shoemaker
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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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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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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