If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. ~Abdallah II of Jordan
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. ~Maya Angelou
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other. ~Jacqueline Novogratz
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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If the stock goes down we want to buy more. ~Walter Schloss
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For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life, the lesson of your utter insignificance. ~Joseph Brodsky
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan 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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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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