God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it. ~Paul McEuen
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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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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself. ~Truman Capote
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels. ~Kiefer Sutherland
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community. ~Simon Mainwaring
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. ~Emily Bronte
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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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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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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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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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