The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole. ~Arthur Capper
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin Proverb
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder. ~John D. Rockefeller
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
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He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher. ~Benjamin Whichcote
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick. ~Adam Driver
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ~French Proverb
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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi 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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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~Hippocrates
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You think you are prepared. You think you have done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then, whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that will knock your little world off its axis. Something that will either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. ~James Michael
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To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. ~Gilbert Newton Lewis
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