If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn. ~Patricia Marx
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I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change. ~Richard Lamm
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first. ~Tom Hiddleston
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Earth to Democrats; displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move. ~Monica Crowley
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests. ~Dorothy Denning
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same. ~Malcolm Forbes
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish 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 pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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"Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts." ~John Green
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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