Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett. ~Al Franken
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. ~Dick Cheney
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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It's not about working anymore, it's about doing work I can be proud of. ~Paul Walker
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I think inspiration is always around; it is just a question of whether or not you are noticing it. ~John Green
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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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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. ~Lord Byron
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
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Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly. ~John Spence
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I can't imagine what they're planning. But I can tell you two things. We won't like it, and it won't be legal. ~Eoin Colfer
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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Movements are as eloquent as words. ~Isadora Duncan
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If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens; men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls. ~Arthur Capper
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted; it was borrowed, spent, and wasted. ~Paul Ryan
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Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men ~Tunku Abdul Rahman
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