I don't think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life. I'm not saying I'm a role model by any means or anything. I think the fact that I wasn't told what not to do all the time - my spirit kind of told me things that I shouldn't. I got to develop on my own. It's part of your common sense. ~Randy Houser
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ~Taoist Proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. ~Ronald Dworkin
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally. ~Vince Lombardi
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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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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She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver wasn't that man. Not to her. He was the boy who'd cried over his dead mother, the young man who'd lost himself in drink and women to forget the past, the marquess who'd vowed not to marry for money. He was the man to be her lover. ~Sabrina Jeffries
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~Thomas Jefferson
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. ~Billy Sunday
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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