One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ~John Shelton Reed
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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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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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first. ~Tom Hiddleston
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I'm a much better mother at 46, than if I were like, 21 or 25. ~Halle Berry
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. ~Matt Chandler
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. ~Bobby Rahal
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well. ~Edward Hallowell
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid. ~Viggo Mortensen
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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. ~Frank B. Kellogg
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