The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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The Senate is now considering increasing government subsidies for corn growers to produce more ethanol. If we produce enough ethanol we can postpone our next invasion of a Middle Eastern country for two to three years. ~Jay Leno
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. ~Anne O'Hare McCormick
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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A live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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Health care is not about insurance! Health care is about getting treatment. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look; that healthy equals beautiful. ~Victoria Principal
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If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor. ~Jennifer James
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ~Charles Evans Hughes
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. ~Sarah Michelle Gellar
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