The debate over same sex "marriage" has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans. ~Elliott Abrams
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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As proud as a peacock. ~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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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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Never underestimate the power of wide-grip pull-ups to develop width and size. ~Ronnie Coleman
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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[The raindrops] played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. ~Gary D. Schmidt
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought of freedom, in that hope itself possess. All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength. The scorn of danger, and united hearts. The surest presage of the good they seek. ~William Cowper
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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
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Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God. ~Kelly Rowland
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish 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 mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ~Marlene Dietrich
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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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The maxims of men disclose their hearts. ~French Proverb
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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