Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary. ~Ben Nelson
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Our problem with desire is that we want too little. ~C. S. Lewis
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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Plaid is always cute and always will be. But only on the bottom. At the top, it makes you look like a farmer. ~Jen Lancaster
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle; people trying to connect with each other. ~Spike Jonze
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It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it ~Miley Cyrus
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It's not about working anymore, it's about doing work I can be proud of. ~Paul Walker
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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~American Proverb
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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A good companion shortens the longest road. ~Kurdish Proverb
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I stuck my tongue out at him because I was feeling exceptional mature. ~Janet Evanovich
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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If the stock goes down we want to buy more. ~Walter Schloss
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It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets. ~J. K. Rowling
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Nakata is empty inside. Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That is what scares me the most. ~Haruki Murakami
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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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
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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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