The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well. ~Edward Hallowell
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~Thomas Jefferson
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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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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all. ~Nancy Sinatra
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Trust in God, but tie your camel. ~Arabic Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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