That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian 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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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change. ~Richard Lamm
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Go to your duty, every man, and trust yourself to Christ; for He will give you all supply just as fast as you need it. You will have just as much power as you believe you can have. Be a Christian; throw yourself upon God's work; and get the ability you want in it. ~Horace Bushnell
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ~Richard M. Nixon
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. ~Jan Karon
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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
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Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members. ~St. Vincent
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. ~Amelia Earhart
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I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be. ~Anna Kendrick
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~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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God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision. ~Charles Stanley
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Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive. ~Kakha Bendukidze
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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