If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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My dad in particular, I tend to use; I call him "The Brain." If he's accessible, I'd rather put it through his brain. My wife, Melissa, maintains that the closer he is in proximity to me, the less I think for myself. And I think she's actually correct. So anything worth mulling over, I will mull over with my father, and that includes ratings. ~Joshua Malina
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ~James Madison
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There is no place like home. ~English Proverb
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. ~Laozi
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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A healthy man is a successful man. ~French Proverb
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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