It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound. ~Latin Proverb
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If I die, I forgive you. If I live, we shall see. ~Spanish Proverb
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~Will Durant
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ~Dag Hammarskjold
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men ~Tunku Abdul Rahman
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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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Need teaches a plan. ~Irish Proverb
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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Sometimes in life, a fog sets in and you don't know which way is the right direction. Every voice may tell you it's not going to happen, but God has placed a promise in your heart. Refuse to listen to those voices. Keep believing. ~Joel Osteen
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If you're "stuck" right now, you're probably into fear. Get out of there. You've already looked both ways. Now cross the street, for heaven sake. The cars have long since gone. The coast is clear. Your only obstacle now is your own mind. ~Neale Donald Walsch
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing. ~Tom Jenkinson
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The Senate is now considering increasing government subsidies for corn growers to produce more ethanol. If we produce enough ethanol we can postpone our next invasion of a Middle Eastern country for two to three years. ~Jay Leno
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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