The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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Life sucks order from a sea of disorder. ~James Gleick
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States. ~Peter Camejo
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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Fame is a magnifying glass. ~English Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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Even the smallest of stars shines in the darkness. ~Swedish Proverb
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. ~Annie Proulx
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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There is a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary. ~Trevor Dunn
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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