Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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I cancel going out if my hair doesn't look good. ~Brad Goreski
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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Love gives life within. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ~Helen Suzman
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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