If you chase two rabbits, you catch none. ~Confucius
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story. ~Ian Somerhalder
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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Every step of life shows much caution is required. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations. ~Harry A. Blackmun
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. ~Spanish Proverb
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Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ~Charles Evans Hughes
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Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, the romance and you find out, you still care for the person.
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro. A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain. The passion of the gale. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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Do not do what you will have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb
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