They say I tried to hurt my nurse. I tell them they tried to hurt me first. ~CJ Roberts
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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they're always present, and they listen. That's a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves. ~Graham Phillips
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day. ~Dennis Miller
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Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound. ~Latin Proverb
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Truth is time's daughter. ~Spanish Proverb
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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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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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Let's be very clear, if you check the F.E.C. records you will see I am supporting George W. Bush. ~Roger Stone
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest, I will say the greatest. ~William Friedkin
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American 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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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that is fantastic for me. ~Stephen Chow
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I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there is a better "Oklahoma!" someplace, a better "West Side Story." And I would like to be mixed up in it. ~Richard Rodgers
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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A live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
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