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• Time washes clean, love's wounds unseen.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Unseen, Clean, Wounds

  Song: Long Long Time

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  Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise.

  Stevie Nicks

  Wise, Timeless, Prisoner

  Song: Beauty And The Beast, Album: The Soundstage Sessions

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• To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Crowns, Thorns, Crown Of Thorns

  Song: Sit Down Young Stranger

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• Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.

  Bob Dylan

  Arrows, Truth Is, Gates

  Song: When He Returns, Album: Slow Train Coming, 1979

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• Truth is never far behind.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Truth Is, Behinds

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• When you have everything, you have everything to lose.

  Ben Harper

  Loses

  Song: Diamonds on the Inside, Album: Diamonds On The Inside, 2003

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• While you see a chance take it, find romance, fake it, because it's all on you.

  Steve Winwood

  Romance, Fake, Chance

  Song: While You See A Chance, Album: Arc of a Diver

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• Wisdom is not the domain of the Wiz.

  Frank Zappa

  Wiz, Domain

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• Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.

  Black Francis

  Wise, Perfect, Tongue

  Song: Speedy Marie, Album: Teenager of the Year, 1994

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• With his blessings from above, serve it generously with love. One man, one wife, one love, through life.

  Dean Martin

  Men, Blessing, Wife

  Song: Memories Are Made Of This

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• You is what you am, a cow don't make ham.

  Frank Zappa

  Ham, Cows

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• You'll never be greater than yourself.

  Bob Dylan

  Greater

  Song: High Water For Charlie Patton, Album: Love And Theft

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• It's the old adage, 'Nothing ventured, nothing gained, ... While this is unique, we consider ourselves unique.

  Gavin Newsom

  Unique, Uniqueness

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• Those old adages - you attract more with honey; do unto others - are true. You can get attention by being acerbic or mean or making a bizarre comment. But by being nice, being empathetic, building relationships and listening, people begin to recognize that you're thoughtful and respectful of their position.

  Shelley Moore Capito

  Nice, Mean, Thoughtful

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• There's an old adage in writing: 'Don't tell, but show.' Writing is not psychology. We do not talk 'about' feelings. Instead the writer feels and through her words awakens those feelings in the reader. The writer takes the reader's hand and guides him through the valley of sorrow and joy without ever having to mention those words.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Hands, Joy

  Natalie Goldberg (1998). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, Shambhala Publications

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• You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.

  Bill Gross

  Butterfly, Chasing Butterflies, Rose

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• The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Brain, Facts, Fiction

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• This is why you can never reason true Christians out of the faith. It's not, as the adage has it, because they were never reasoned into it - many were - it's that faith is a logical door which locks behind you. What looks like a line of thought is steadily warping.

  John Jeremiah Sullivan

  Christian, Doors, Locks

  John Jeremiah Sullivan (2011). “Pulphead: Essays”, p.30, Macmillan

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• It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world where the old adage"There is no alternative to victory" retains a high degree of plausibility.

  Hannah Arendt

  Secret, Victory, Events

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On violence”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Long ago I added to the true old adage of "What is everybody's business is nobody's business," another clause which, I think, morethan any other principle has served to influence my actions in life. That is, What is nobody's business is my business.

  Clara Barton

  Thinking, Long Ago, Principles

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• Takes more than combat boots to make a man.

  Sting

  Men, Boots, Combat

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• The biggest man you're ever going to see was once a baby.

  Bob Marley

  Baby, Men

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• Who so ever diggeth the pit, shall fall in it.

  Bob Marley

  Fall, Pits

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• The adage that you are either gay or straight or you are lying. Well, that's not true. Bisexuality does exist

  Clive Davis

  Lying, Gay, Doe

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• There's the old saying that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. There are few better places to apply that adage than the drug war. It's time to end it. It's time to restore peace and harmony to Latin America and the United States. It's time to end the failed war on drugs. It's time to legalize drugs.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Latin, War, America

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