One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian 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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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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One thing I like about Twitter is that you can hear it from the horse's mouth. ~Big Boi
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Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone. ~Prabal Gurung
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result. ~Lyle Lovett
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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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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I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it. ~Paul McEuen
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I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day. ~Dennis Miller
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It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player. ~Anna Kournikova
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Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously? ~Steve Stevaert
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good. ~Miguel Cabrera
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It's quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it's nice to go home. ~Daphne Guinness
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart; I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. ~Tony Parsons
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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