The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Age is honorable and youth is noble. ~Irish Proverb
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~Chinese Proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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