Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental. ~Henry Rollins
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I'm not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach. ~Marc Guggenheim
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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For mercy has a human heart; pity, a human face; and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. ~William Blake
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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story. ~David Morse
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Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength; not his weaknesses; to place him immediately on the defensive. ~Mark McKinnon
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made. ~Errol Morris
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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People should decide "are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?" I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money; they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ~Felix Baumgartner
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ~Mark Twain
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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ~Zhu Rongji
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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I don't know where life's going, but soon it will be gone. I hope the wind that's blowing helps me carry on. Turn on the radio, baby listen to my song. Turn on the night light baby, I'm gone. ~Marc Cohn
#quotes #marc-cohn #night #light #music