Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. ~Dave Barry
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic 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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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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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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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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I am having a good time doing nothing. ~Phylicia Rashad
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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. ~Michele Bachmann
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. ~John Podhoretz
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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