If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. ~David Suzuki
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Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow. ~Frank Dane
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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A promise is a debt. ~Proverb
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When there is no thought, the kundalini rises. When you create a vacuum, something will be drawn into it. The less thought you have, the more kundalini will flow through the chakras, the shushumna. ~Frederick Lenz
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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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Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. ~Lionel Hampton
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ~Daisaku Ikeda
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Among the southern tribes, on the contrary, hats were sometimes worn in the dance, although this was not considered in strict accordance with the doctrine. ~James Mooney
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Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish Proverb
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