Blood is thicker than water. ~English Proverb
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Repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. ~Marianne Moore
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend. ~Tony Snow
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Life sucks order from a sea of disorder. ~James Gleick
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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Sorrow is brief but joy is endless ~Friedrich Schiller
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Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along? ~Peter Schuyler
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I have picked myself up and gone on. ~Sharon Stone
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
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1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me. ~Chuck Mangione
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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A secret is like a dove, when it leaves the hand, it takes wings. ~Saudi Proverb
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. ~Ayn Rand
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