Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength; not his weaknesses; to place him immediately on the defensive. ~Mark McKinnon
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish 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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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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You can't, Brooke, you can't leave. You're mine. ~Katy Evans
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for. ~Brian Lamb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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