Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people. ~Robert Frost
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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Theatre is where my heart is. It is where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that is what I want to come back to. ~Kelly Reilly
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That is what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us. ~Kurt Busch
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English 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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Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive. ~Kakha Bendukidze
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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Blue eyes say, "Love me or I die." Black eyes say, "Love me or I kill thee." ~Spanish Proverb
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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