If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power. ~Ludwig von Mises
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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A picture is worth a thousand words. ~English Proverb
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time. ~Jerry Bridges
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. ~Nancy Farmer
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Idleness is the beginning of all vices. ~Proverb
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world. ~Jack Nicholson
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English 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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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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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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No one can advise or help you; no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart. Delve into yourself for a deep answer ~Rainer Maria Rilke
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