If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian 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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I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight. ~Len Goodman
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
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Remember the street car cannot turn out. ~Charles Melville Hays
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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If you were to open up a baby's head, and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should; you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland. ~Dave Barry
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Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work. ~Christophe Beck
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Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well. ~Bob Brown
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Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead. ~Harry Enfield
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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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If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you do not wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. ~John Polkinghorne
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