Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ~Mark Twain
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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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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away. ~Proverb
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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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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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~Oliver Goldsmith
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You can almost taste the pressure now. ~Vin Scully
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. ~Ronald Dworkin
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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