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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.: Rabbinical Saying
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Here's a message to the new borns, waiting to breathe: if you believe then you can achieve. Just look at me, against all odds 'though life is hard, we carry on, livin' in the projects, broke with no lights on. To all the seeds that follow me- protect your essence, born with less, but you still precious.: Tupac Shakur, Smile
Kids are like buckets of disease that live in your house.: Louis C. K., Louis C. K.: Chewed Up, 2008
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.: Elie Wiesel (1928 - )
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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.: Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
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Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.: Bill Cosby (1937 - )
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It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits.": Paul Graham, September 2004
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Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.: Edward Teller (1908 - 2003)
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My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.: Jessica Alba
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.: Edwin P. Whipple
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Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
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An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.: Scott Adams (1957 - )
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All my possessions for a moment of time.: Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603)
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Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.: Christina Baldwin
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.: Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
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