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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Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she is cheered on and supported. ~Sheryl Sandberg
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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My dad in particular, I tend to use; I call him "The Brain." If he's accessible, I'd rather put it through his brain. My wife, Melissa, maintains that the closer he is in proximity to me, the less I think for myself. And I think she's actually correct. So anything worth mulling over, I will mull over with my father, and that includes ratings. ~Joshua Malina
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Praise the young and they will blossom. ~Irish Proverb
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is no place like home. ~English Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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I admit that, my wife is outspoken, but by whom? ~Sam Levenson
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