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Romanian Proverb
An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.
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Jake Johanson
A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to my suede jacket. 'You know a cow was murdered for that jacket' she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, 'I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too.'
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...
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Mark Twain
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.
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Saint Jerome
An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.
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Richard Feynman
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
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Colin Greenwood
No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before.
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Martin Luther
At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.
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Arab Proverb
The sinning is the best part of repentance.
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Natalie Clifford Barney
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?
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John Blake
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
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Plutarch
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
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