It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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Easy come, easy go. ~English Proverb
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom. ~Don Henley
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ~Taoist Proverb
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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution. ~Luc Montagnier
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A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem. ~Christina Romer
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If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that. ~Paul Weyrich
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Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming. ~Leonardo DiCaprio
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene. ~Grimes
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You have got to have a problem that you want to solve, a wrong that you want to right. ~Steve Jobs
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The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse. ~Jaron Lanier
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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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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The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto'o but he is 32 years old; maybe 35, who knows? ~Jose Mourinho
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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Our problem with desire is that we want too little. ~C. S. Lewis
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I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality. ~Dave Davies
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