A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~American Proverb
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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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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them. ~Compton Mackenzie
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer. ~Frank Sinatra
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people. ~Morton Gould
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ~Valerie Simpson
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. ~Robert Smithson
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Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment. ~Jim Jeffords
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A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem. ~Christina Romer
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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