Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained. ~Aaron Burr
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. ~Anne O'Hare McCormick
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Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion. ~Archibald Hill
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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Virtue is its own reward. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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I want to take back at least half of the "I love you"s, because I didn't mean them as much as the other ones. ~David Levithan
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In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy. ~Sebastian Faulks
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else. ~Sarah Lacy
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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