To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor. ~Paul A. Baran
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds. ~Annie Leibovitz
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ~Wendell Willkie
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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I don't know where life's going, but soon it will be gone. I hope the wind that's blowing helps me carry on. Turn on the radio, baby listen to my song. Turn on the night light baby, I'm gone. ~Marc Cohn
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A human heart that matched what we think of as heart-shaped; a perfectly formed bright red thing with two halves of equal size; would be one that was horribly diseased. The origin of this stylized representation is somewhat obscure, but it probably appeared at the same time as St. Valentine's Day, about whose history there is much dispute. ~George Fetherling
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves. When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, presuming on their changeful potency. ~William Shakespeare
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves. ~Proverb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music. ~Simon Cowell
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I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. ~Jessye Norman
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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