If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. ~Henry David Thoreau
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Truly, the sword inspires dread even in its scabbard. ~Arabic Proverb
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible. ~Paul Michael Glaser
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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Virtue is its own reward. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. ~Laozi
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion. ~Archibald Hill
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour! ~David Berg
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth. ~Gautama Buddha
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