America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. ~Tom Robbins
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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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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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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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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men ~Tunku Abdul Rahman
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is. ~James Gray
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York. ~Haile Gebrselassie
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (Vino Veritas) ~Pliny the Elder
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~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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In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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Once I saw my parents argue because we didn't have a lot of money anymore. So, I did what I had to do. I got my piggy bank and I went out to the backyard and buried it. ~Jack Handey
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s. ~Ellen Page
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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