Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund "Obamacare." They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the "Obamacare" program. ~Paul Ryan
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe. ~Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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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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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ~Charles Churchill
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ~Daisaku Ikeda
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He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb
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To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. ~Native American Proverb
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I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. ~George Burns
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous. ~Mel Brooks
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats. ~Jill Lepore
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (Vino Veritas) ~Pliny the Elder
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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The debate over same sex "marriage" has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans. ~Elliott Abrams
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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