Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think of God. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ~James Madison
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood, whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ~Thomas Friedman
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases. ~Ron Wyden
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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We are focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important. ~John W. Snow
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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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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