This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment. ~Jim Jeffords
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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Trust the tale, not the teller. ~David Knopfler
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice. ~Voltaire
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On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success. ~Martin Van Buren
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Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. ~Democritus
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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A thief believes everybody steals. ~Proverb
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. ~Bobby Rahal
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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