If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free. ~Russell Means
#quotes #russell-means #freedom #united-states

I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. ~Helen Mirren
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
#proverbs #spanish-proverbs #speaking #silence

The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
#proverbs #grandparents

Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ~Jacques Derrida
#quotes #jacques-derrida #lively

A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
#proverbs #labor #work

An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
#proverbs #turkish-proverbs #stupidity

The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change. ~Richard Lamm
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life. ~Tom Petty
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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