Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. ~Bernadette Devlin
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In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion. ~Archibald Hill
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive; those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ~Osamu Dazai
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world. ~Jack Nicholson
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish 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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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. ~Jose Saramago
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan Proverb
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~Jorge Luis Borges
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
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Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. ~Jane Fonda
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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