Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at all times. Many times in history there has been complete disagreement between the two branches of the Government, and in these disagreements sometimes the Congress has won and sometimes the President has won. But during the administration of the present President we have had neither agreement nor a clear-cut battle. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act. ~Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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Until you destroy your body, you don't learn to appreciate it. Treat the body like a temple because the body is so beautiful. If and when you understand your body then you will respect it. The body is like a bud, until the sun rises it will not bloom, until it blooms it will not be beautiful or give perfume. So respect it, take care of it. ~Bikram Choudhury
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there is a better "Oklahoma!" someplace, a better "West Side Story." And I would like to be mixed up in it. ~Richard Rodgers
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love. ~K.P. Yohannan
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. ~Rumi
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places. ~Fred Kent
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