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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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proverbiosYou are only as old as you feel. ~English Proverb
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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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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Conscience is the voice of the soul. ~Polish Proverb
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. ~Peter O'Toole
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. ~Irvine Welsh
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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