Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. ~Dave Barry
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Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at all times. Many times in history there has been complete disagreement between the two branches of the Government, and in these disagreements sometimes the Congress has won and sometimes the President has won. But during the administration of the present President we have had neither agreement nor a clear-cut battle. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night. ~Charles Spurgeon
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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