Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste. ~Rick Danko
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Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result. ~Lyle Lovett
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music. ~Simon Cowell
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If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York. ~Haile Gebrselassie
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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~Thomas Jefferson
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I'm a songwriter first. ~Carole King
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it. ~Paul McEuen
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you. ~Philip Roth
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality. ~Dave Davies
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Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me ~Ray LaMontagne
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I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end. ~Emily Mortimer
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He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb
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If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free. ~Russell Means
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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