Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ~Zhu Rongji
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment; that is not the Islamic way. ~Naguib Mahfouz
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In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human. ~Elie Wiesel
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I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that. ~David Kay
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Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive. ~Kakha Bendukidze
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish 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 short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people. ~Robert Frost
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary. ~Bernard Hopkins
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