To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. ~Gilbert Newton Lewis
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~Plato
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The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein. ~Jerry Brown
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known. ~Bryan Lee O'Malley
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The people of Chicago are a proud people; and for good reason. ~Jane Byrne
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Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to. ~Jackson Browne
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. ~Barney Frank
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There is no place like home. ~English Proverb
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for. ~Brian Tracy
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I have been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the no-fly zone. ~Philippe Perrin
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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances. ~Bryan Adams
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?" ~Brian Tracy
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I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East. ~Bernie Sanders
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To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor. ~Paul A. Baran
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We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn't it comforting to know God isn't ever broken? He isn't ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next. ~Lysa TerKeurst
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I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change. ~Richard Lamm
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people. ~Robert Frost
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