For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws. ~Ernest Holmes
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I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to. ~Lou Brock
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither. ~Thomas Jefferson
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As we continue to fight the war on terror, we express our gratitude to our troops whose valor over the last three years provided freedom to the Iraqis, while protecting our liberty here at home. ~Tim Murphy
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety. ~Rajneesh
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~Thomas Jefferson
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There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. ~Isaac Asimov
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time, they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn. ~Thomas Friedman
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If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free. ~Russell Means
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. ~Ferdinand Mount
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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