The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. ~John Calvin
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave. ~Kool Moe Dee
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Truth is time's daughter. ~Spanish Proverb
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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
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Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men ~Tunku Abdul Rahman
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In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team. ~Jon Krakauer
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications. ~Starhawk
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin. ~Joseph Goebbels
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. ~Michel de Montaigne
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. ~Benjamin Franklin
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies. ~Paul Cook
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