A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games. ~Lincoln Chafee
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There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible. ~Moby
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If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin. ~Joseph Goebbels
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States. ~Peter Camejo
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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I'm a much better mother at 46, than if I were like, 21 or 25. ~Halle Berry
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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
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The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent. ~David Lloyd
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American 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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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out. ~Derek Jeter
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes, and I loved it. ~Anne Lamott
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. ~Bernard of Clairvaux
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Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks. ~Steven Rattner
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit. ~Dorothy Thompson
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