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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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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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quotistThe fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. ~John Burroughs
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole. ~Arthur Capper
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Truly, the sword inspires dread even in its scabbard. ~Arabic Proverb
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses. ~Juliana Hatfield
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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I'm a little concerned I'm always going to be playing a black guy, you know what I'm saying? ~Dule Hill
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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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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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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