Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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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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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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On reflection, Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, this wasn't one of your better plans. ~Chris Wooding
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ~Richard M. Nixon
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I cancel going out if my hair doesn't look good. ~Brad Goreski
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along? ~Peter Schuyler
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We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood, whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ~Thomas Friedman
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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I like my raps, but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better. But every time I hear my flow on that song I wow myself. ~Tyler The Creator
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals. ~Alphonsus Rodriguez
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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She really mellowed me out that way. We both definitely grew with each other and with the whole experience. ~Brian Austin Green
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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One sister for sale, one sister for sale, one crying and spying young sister for sale. I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding. Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isn't, there isn't there any one person who will buy this sister for sale. This crying spying old young sister for sale. ~Shel Silverstein
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Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message. ~James Patterson
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