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Trust that your child is trying to be the best he can be and that he will do this more readily without your criticism. Know that he usually sees his own faults without you continually pointing them out.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.: Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.: A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936)
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The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.: Jane Wagner
Humility is no substitute for a good personality.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ), Metropolitan Life, 1978
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My Karma ran over your dogma.: Unknown
The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.: Jay Leno (1950 - )
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.: Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
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A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.: Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)
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The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992), Salvor Hardin in "Foundation"
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One can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), quoted in New York Times, March 19, 1940
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You can talk about anything if you go about it the right way, which is never malicious.: Rodney Carrington
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.: Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.: Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark, 2003