The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English Proverb
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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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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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?" ~Brian Tracy
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. ~Imelda Marcos
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
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In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity. ~Sun Tzu
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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Sweet is the day of sacred rest;
No mortal cares shall seize my breast;
O may my heart in tune be found
Like David's harp of solemn sound. ~Isaac Watts
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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One doctor makes work for another. ~English Proverb
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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