Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ~John Mortimer
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Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill. ~S.M. Stirling
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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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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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It is harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next. ~Pink
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Instinct is stronger than upbringing. ~Irish Proverb
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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There ain't no good guys, there ain't no bad guys, there's only you and me, and we just disagree. ~Dave Mason
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I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time; without UN approval and much broader support from the international community. ~Kofi Annan
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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