The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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You have got to have a problem that you want to solve, a wrong that you want to right. ~Steve Jobs
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I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair. ~Viktor E. Frankl
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~Plato
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary. ~Billy Crystal
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Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite. ~Dan Wells
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances. ~Bryan Adams
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda. ~Rick Derringer
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"Why aren't you dead?" Will demanded. ~Cinda Williams Chima
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases. ~Ron Kind
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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I don't know where life's going, but soon it will be gone. I hope the wind that's blowing helps me carry on. Turn on the radio, baby listen to my song. Turn on the night light baby, I'm gone. ~Marc Cohn
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I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that. ~Stella McCartney
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