Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change. ~Richard Lamm
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks. ~Steven Rattner
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The cat was created when the lion sneezed. ~Arabic Proverb
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult. ~Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life, the lesson of your utter insignificance. ~Joseph Brodsky
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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Everything that happens is meant to be. It is meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it is meant to be disaster. ~Tony Kaye
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling. ~Hugh Jackman
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready. ~Nancy E. Turner
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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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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress. ~Jean Bertrand Aristide
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He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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