A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen 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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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
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If the stock goes down we want to buy more. ~Walter Schloss
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Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree. ~Polish Proverb
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We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are. ~Lauryn Hill
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
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You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world. ~Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth. ~Madeleine Albright
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He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin Proverb
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained, this is free. ~Veronica Roth
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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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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The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole. ~Arthur Capper
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