I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success; such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. ~Nikola Tesla
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican 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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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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