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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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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act. ~Ryszard Kapuscinski
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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proverbiosThe three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies. ~Paul Cook
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese Proverb
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you do not wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community. ~Simon Mainwaring
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed, can let their veins run cold. ~Wilfred Owen
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
#quotes #norman-lear #family #racism
He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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