Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. ~Dan Brown
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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We have a tough schedule this summer, so I have to plan my schedule wisely if I want to be able to last throughout the season. ~Kim Clijsters
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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One doctor makes work for another. ~English Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness. ~Mark E. Petersen
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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A dimple on the chin, the devil within. ~Gaelic Proverb
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies. ~Paul Cook
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For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations, well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing. ~James Cromwell
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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