Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena? ~Dan Rather
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday. ~John Clayton
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~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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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness. ~Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives. ~James Bovard
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence. ~Jay Duplass
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Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. ~Erich Fromm
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin
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The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse. ~Jaron Lanier
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