Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is. ~Mos Def
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Who does not thank for little, will not thank for much. ~Estonian Proverb
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I don't trust a lot of journalists. ~Calvin Klein
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In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human. ~Elie Wiesel
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Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive. ~Robert Kiyosaki
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. ~Camille Paglia
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity. ~Antoine Rivarol
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It is objective evaluations that give our hardwiring principles teeth and drive the organization toward results that last. ~Quint Studer
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I have a natural curiosity for people. ~Nicholas Haslam
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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. ~John Calvin
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life. ~John Stamos
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies. ~Antoni Tapies
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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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