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French Proverb
No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.
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Marcel Marceau
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words
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James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
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Marcel Marceau
Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.
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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
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Lawrence Peter Berra
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
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Soren Kierkegaard, "The Sickness Unto Death"
And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.
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Wilson Mizner
Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest.
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Real Live Preacher
I dont think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.
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Anne Frank
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
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William Blake
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
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