Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~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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The First Amendment only says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." It can disrespect all it wants. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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The Senate is now considering increasing government subsidies for corn growers to produce more ethanol. If we produce enough ethanol we can postpone our next invasion of a Middle Eastern country for two to three years. ~Jay Leno
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight. ~Len Goodman
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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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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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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People are cooking less but obsessing about it more. ~Dougie Poynter
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#eating #cooking #obsession

Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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The superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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