You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. ~Dan Brown
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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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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There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. ~Harry Blamires
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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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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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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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Beggars can't be choosers. ~English Proverb
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. ~William Osler
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power. ~Ludwig von Mises
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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