The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Even if you're not going anywhere, do not get in the way. ~Jose Bergamin
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The most important of the Lord's work you will ever do will be the work you do within the walls of your own home. ~Harold B. Lee
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When I am in situations where I break out of the pattern, it's hard on me. Once you get used to regular scripture study, you miss it if you don't have it. It's like food; you have to have it. I know that I need the scriptures like I need food. I don't miss a regular meal, and I don't miss regular scripture study. ~Henry B. Eyring
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines. ~Ronald Steel
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If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin. ~Joseph Goebbels
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~Hippocrates
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There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned. ~Nizar Qabbani
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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I think that the best rock n' roll is about the spirit of being young, the feeling of being 16 and getting crazy with your friends and going out to a show and just that whole feeling. ~Sebastian Bach
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ~Wendell Willkie
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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Friendship is not how long we have been together; not how much we have given or received; not how many times we have helped each other; it is how we value each other.
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, the positive pronounce without dismay. ~William Cowper
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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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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. ~Michael Servetus
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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We cannot come to honour under coverlet. ~George Herbert
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, "Who's that?" But this got me started in acting. ~James Stewart
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