If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English Proverb
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned. ~Nizar Qabbani
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But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no. ~Barack Obama
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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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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I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. ~Jessye Norman
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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart. ~Proverb
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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In Mallrats, you pretty much don't see him sell any weed, really. I don't consider him a big dealer. ~Jason Mewes
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour! ~David Berg
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear. ~Irish Proverb
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The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be. ~Joe Sakic
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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I like my raps, but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better. But every time I hear my flow on that song I wow myself. ~Tyler The Creator
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer
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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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