Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood, whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ~Thomas Friedman
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I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth. ~Danielle Steel
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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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Bambi, to a kid, was scary. ~Billy Crystal
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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Plaid is always cute and always will be. But only on the bottom. At the top, it makes you look like a farmer. ~Jen Lancaster
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Among the southern tribes, on the contrary, hats were sometimes worn in the dance, although this was not considered in strict accordance with the doctrine. ~James Mooney
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Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound. ~Carolina Herrera
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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Children see things very well sometimes, and idealists even better. ~Lorraine Hansberry
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I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love. ~K.P. Yohannan
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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For me, poetry is always a search for order. ~Elizabeth Jennings
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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Our problem with desire is that we want too little. ~C. S. Lewis
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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The West is dead; you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her. ~Charles Marion Russell
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It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player. ~Anna Kournikova
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish. ~Theodor Reik
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Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing. ~Tom Jenkinson
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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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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