The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. ~Abba Eban
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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Honesty is the best privacy policy. ~Internet Proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. ~Frank B. Kellogg
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I take pride in the fact that a lot of little kids dig what I do. ~John Cena
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. ~Indian Proverb
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere. ~Ryan White
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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