If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, the romance and you find out, you still care for the person.
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you do not wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. ~Sigmund Freud
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ~Taoist Proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave. ~Kool Moe Dee
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He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb
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I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East. ~Bernie Sanders
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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