When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. ~Ferdinand Mount
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
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A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. ~Kathie Lee Gifford
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself. ~Candance Bushnell
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight. ~Len Goodman
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Remember the street car cannot turn out. ~Charles Melville Hays
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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If you were to open up a baby's head, and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should; you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland. ~Dave Barry
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Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work. ~Christophe Beck
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that. ~U.G. Krishnamurti
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As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years; the longest in the world. ~Robert Jarvik
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