This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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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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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. ~Edward Snowden
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If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens; men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls. ~Arthur Capper
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There are no limits, only obstacles, and any obstacle can be overcome. ~David Belle
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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Love gives life within. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. ~Latin Proverb
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Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. ~Louis Dudek
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
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