Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul. ~John Clellon Holmes
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. ~Max Eastman
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I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed. ~Bonnie Wright
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them. ~Rabindranath Tagore
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A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem. ~Christina Romer
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance. ~Michelle Wie
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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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I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I would bring things to class that I had cooked at home. ~Giada De Laurentiis
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The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
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Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly. ~John Spence
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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An angry man is full of poison. ~Confucius
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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I am a big horror fan. I am a genre fan. I like to make these movies. They're my favorite kinds of movies to make. ~Amber Heard
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio; I don't know that guy. ~Bill Burr
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. ~Michael Servetus
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored. ~Stanley B. Prusiner
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