At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. ~Giuseppe Garibaldi
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications. ~Starhawk
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I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy. ~Bono
#quotes #bono #united-states

I doubt anyone in Hollywood has had more "dates" than me. ~George Hamilton
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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. ~Pearl S. Buck
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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A picture is worth a thousand words. ~English Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic 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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It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~Woody Allen
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. ~William Osler
#quotes #william-osler #human #achievement

All artists are anarchists in some way; some more extreme than others, but it is something that I think artists are supposed to do. We are supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is as much as poetry, in my opinion. ~Robert Zemeckis
#quotes #robert-zemeckis #art #thinking

Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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Silence is not weakness and decency is not pride. ~Arthur Machen
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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Sorrow is brief but joy is endless ~Friedrich Schiller
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Truly, the sword inspires dread even in its scabbard. ~Arabic Proverb
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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