Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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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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Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching "Coronation Street." ~Amelia Warner
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
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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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If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow. ~Henry Adams
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ~Indian Proverb
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I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes. ~Joan Collins
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ~Valerie Simpson
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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