Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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People should decide "are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?" I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money; they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ~Felix Baumgartner
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States. ~Peter Camejo
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after. ~Peter Stuyvesant
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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Repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. ~Marianne Moore
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Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. ~Democritus
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
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Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change. ~Mitch Kapor
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan Proverb
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
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Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
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I'm a drama nerd. ~Luke Kirby
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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither. ~Thomas Jefferson
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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins. ~Chinese Proverb
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. ~Benazir Bhutto
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A good companion shortens the longest road. ~Kurdish Proverb
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