Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead. ~Harry Enfield
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. ~Matt Chandler
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We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood, whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ~Thomas Friedman
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone. ~William Beveridge
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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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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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy. ~Missy Franklin
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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I promote a healthy lifestyle. ~Kim Kardashian
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When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful! ~Soren Kierkegaard
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If someone were to say, "Well, what would you have done differently?" I'd say, "Nothing." I think you need to make mistakes. ~Kim Kardashian
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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