A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. ~Georges Bidault
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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The Senate is now considering increasing government subsidies for corn growers to produce more ethanol. If we produce enough ethanol we can postpone our next invasion of a Middle Eastern country for two to three years. ~Jay Leno
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary. ~Karl Lagerfeld
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. ~Amelia Earhart
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress. ~Shimon Peres
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French 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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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different. ~Mike Pence
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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