The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither. ~Thomas Jefferson
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
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If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places. ~Fred Kent
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. ~Elton John
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school. ~Valentino Garavani
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity. ~Sun Tzu
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it! ~Estelle
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Easy come, easy go. ~English Proverb
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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