A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ~Valerie Simpson
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. ~Caleb Cushing
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well. ~Bob Brown
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek 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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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are. ~Lauryn Hill
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life. ~John Stamos
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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The sinning is the best part of repentance. ~Arabic Proverb
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size. ~Kurdish Proverb
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An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~Proverb
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