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 do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East. ~Bernie Sanders
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. ~Proverb
#proverbs #eating

Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases. ~Ron Wyden
#quotes #ron-wyden #medicine #poverty

When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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We are focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important. ~John W. Snow
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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
#quotes #elisabeth-elliot #marriage

A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
#proverbs #children #daughters

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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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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The end never comes when you think it will. It is always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. ~Lena Dunham
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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Truth is time's daughter. ~Spanish Proverb
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ~John Desmond Bernal
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I have always been really scared of scary movies just because I live by myself; and then seeing something, then having a big imagination and then like thinking you see it in the middle of the night. So I've never been really into them. ~Ashley Tisdale
#quotes #ashley-tisdale #movies #night #thinking #imagination

In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid. ~Jay Smith
#quotes #jay-smith #queen

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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