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For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition. ~Joe Scarborough
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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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Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental. ~Henry Rollins
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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proverbiosWe love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved. ~Julia Barr
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You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life. ~Steve Wozniak
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Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay. ~John Schlesinger
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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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Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well. ~Bob Brown
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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It's hard to be a good doctor if you don't think about the social circumstances of who you're treating. There are many Tory doctors, but I think it's difficult to be a doctor and a genuine right winger. ~Robert Winston
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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
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If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor. ~Jennifer James
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~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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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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