Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. ~Cleanthes
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"Perfect justice rules the world" for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives. ~Iamblichus
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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. ~Spanish 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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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time, they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn. ~Thomas Friedman
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means. ~Gerry Adams
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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