Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export. Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains an attractive idea; in fact, seductive. Its every failure is explained away as due to the inadequacies of particular leaders. ~Thomas Sowell
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear. ~Irish Proverb
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive. ~George Santayana
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At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means. ~Gerry Adams
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I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home. ~Evelyn Glennie
#quotes #evelyn-glennie #travel #home

I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
#quotes #christopher-monckton #3rd-viscount-monckton-of-brenchley #environment #china

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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Let me think about the people I care about... ~Ze Frank
#quotes #ze-frank #caring

My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent. ~Miles Teller
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For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ~Helen Suzman
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant. ~Paul Dirac
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There's a myth that free-to-play is cheaper than a $60 game. It's just elastic. For some users, it winds up being a lot more expensive. I would have paid $150 a year to get a better version of FIFA. ~Mitch Lasky
#quotes #mitch-lasky #games #free-to-play

I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
#quotes #geena-davis #humor

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
#quotes #sylvia-earle #darwin