Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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I take pride in the fact that a lot of little kids dig what I do. ~John Cena
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My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent. ~Miles Teller
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary. ~Billy Crystal
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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I have always felt that kids are really smart. ~Michelle Trachtenberg
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The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy. ~Missy Franklin
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I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses. ~Juliana Hatfield
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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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And by the way, showers. Look into them, Doug! ~Rachel Caine
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We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are. ~Lauryn Hill
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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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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
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God bless us everyone! Said Tiny Tim, the last of all. ~Charles Dickens
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse. ~Jaron Lanier
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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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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. ~Lionel Hampton
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You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel. ~Jennifer Aniston
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me. ~Moon Unit Zappa
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