A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no. ~Barack Obama
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish Proverb
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ~Charles Evans Hughes
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ~Marlene Dietrich
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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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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~George Bernard Shaw
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma. ~Greg Boyle
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No matter what you do each day; or in life, doing things God's way is a matter of the heart. ~Elizabeth George
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive. ~Robert Kiyosaki
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Need teaches a plan. ~Irish Proverb
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