All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States. ~Peter Camejo
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony. ~Helen Nielsen
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone. ~William Beveridge
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down. ~Young Buck
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances. ~Bryan Adams
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves. When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, presuming on their changeful potency. ~William Shakespeare
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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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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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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There is nothing Dutch about my architecture. ~Rem Koolhaas
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
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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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Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses. ~Juliana Hatfield
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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If you chase two rabbits, you catch none. ~Confucius
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The maxims of men disclose their hearts. ~French Proverb
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It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. ~Irvine Welsh
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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