A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state. ~Benjamin Netanyahu
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German 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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A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish Proverb
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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One person's craziness is another person's reality. ~Tim Burton
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A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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After all the evidence is in, after you've run all the facts by everything you know, and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. ~Christopher Moore
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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