Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox. ~Anna Howard Shaw
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Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture. ~Joyce Meyer
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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For me, poetry is always a search for order. ~Elizabeth Jennings
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I have picked myself up and gone on. ~Sharon Stone
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Yes, God wants you to do signs and wonders. But the love of God manifested through you is what people really need. So you first must see His face. You must become so close to His very heartbeat that you can feel what others feel. ~Heidi Baker
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Once I saw my parents argue because we didn't have a lot of money anymore. So, I did what I had to do. I got my piggy bank and I went out to the backyard and buried it. ~Jack Handey
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy. ~Bono
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations, well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing. ~James Cromwell
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard. ~Gena Showalter
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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ~Barbara Jordan
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