Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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I am not a fan of what we call "friendly fire" or "blue on blue." We don't want to have that. ~Tommy Franks
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out. ~Derek Jeter
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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. ~Maya Angelou
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While aromatherapy is practiced by medical doctors in France, this has not been the case in England and the United States. ~Robert Tisserand
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Working with the likes of Joseph Fiennes was just an incredible experience. ~Alice Eve
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Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow. ~Frank Dane
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Let us help build the kingdom of God by standing up boldly and being defenders of marriage, parenthood, and the home. ~Bonnie L. Oscarson
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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
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Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community. ~Simon Mainwaring
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For mercy has a human heart; pity, a human face; and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. ~William Blake
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it. ~Kim Yuna
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I realized that even in a world of proliferating media venues, online and in print, and on TV and on countless cable channels, the idea that I could be considered an expert on chronic knee pain was I think troubling for society, but very exciting for me. ~John Hodgman
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I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another. ~Russell M. Nelson
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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I doubt anyone in Hollywood has had more "dates" than me. ~George Hamilton
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