Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive. ~William Shatner
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Science is not about what is true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence. ~Lee Smolin
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Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching. ~Steve Waugh
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation. ~Thurston Moore
#quotes #thurston-moore #radio

The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. ~Donald Davis
#quotes #donald-davis #reality #stories

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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I dream about people who do not need to have sex to know they love each other. ~Carol Rifka Brunt
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood, whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ~Thomas Friedman
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic 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
#quotes #amelia-warner #queen #buckingham-palace #coronation-street

The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine. ~Robert M. Parker
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Beggars can't be choosers. ~English Proverb
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You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world. ~Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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