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• When love is true there is no truer occupation.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Love Is, Occupation

  Song: A Passing Ship, Album: East of Midnight

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• The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.

  Henry Rollins

  Lying, Stronger, Destructive

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• The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.

  Pete Townshend

  Facts

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• The fight to make ends meet, keeps a man upon his feet.

  Robert Palmer

  Fighting, Men, Feet

  Song: Every Kinda People, Album: Double Fun

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• The fish who keeps on swimming is the first to chill upstream.

  Nick Hexum

  Swimming, Firsts, Chill

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• The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Fall, Doors, House

  Song: The House You Live In, Album: Summertime Dream

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• The heart says what only the heart knows.

  Lou Reed

  Heart, Knows

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.408, Da Capo Press

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• The hurt gets worse as the heart grows harder.

  Warren Zevon

  Hurt, Heart, Harder

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• When the other man has none, you don't need a gun.

  Billy Idol

  Men, Gun, Needs

  Song: Don't Need a Gun, Album: Whiplash Smile, 1986

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• The only real person you need to know is you.

  Alice Cooper

  Real, Needs, Persons

  Song: Living, Album: Pretties For You, 1969

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• It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

  George Washington

  Leadership, Honesty, Individual

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1847). “pt. III. Private letters from the time Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the Army to that of his inauguration as president of the United States: December, 1783-April, 1789”, p.146

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• Everybody else shares the same cloudy sky.

  Joe Walsh

  Sky, Share, Cloudy Skies

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• Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.

  James Thurber

  Broadway Theatre, Superstitions, Theater

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• Criticism is an alluring substitute for creation, because tearing
  things down, unlike building them up, really is as easy as falling off a stump. It's blissfully simple to strike a savvy, sophisticated pose by attacking someone else's creations, but the old adage is right: Any fool can burn down a barn. Building one is something else again.

  Martha Beck

  Fall, Simple, Criticism

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• A hungry mob is an angry mob.

  Bob Marley

  Music, Hungry, Angry

  "Song: 'Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)'". 1974.

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• There is a banking adage that if it's growing like a weed, it's a good chance that it's a weed.

  Mark Zandi

  Weed, Banking, Growing

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• Harry Truman proves that old adage that any man can become President of the United States.

  Norman Thomas

  Men, Harry Truman, President

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• Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.

  Bob Dylan

  Hours, Late

  'All Along the Watchtower' (1968 song)

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• Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.

  Bob Dylan

  Forget, Left

  Song: It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, 1965

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• Age doesn't make a man.

  Roger Miller

  Men, Age

  Song: Vance

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• It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals.

  Samantha Bond

  Children, Animal, Theatrical

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• Follow the rules or follow the fools.

  Tupac Shakur

  Fool

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• If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.

  James Brown

  Trying, Firsts, First Time

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• If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day.

  Sting

  Hero, Men, He Man

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• Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Dust

  Song: Only Love Would Know, Album: Waiting for You

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