I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~Phyllis Diller
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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Children see things very well sometimes, and idealists even better. ~Lorraine Hansberry
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ~Indian Proverb
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I have always felt that kids are really smart. ~Michelle Trachtenberg
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I would bring things to class that I had cooked at home. ~Giada De Laurentiis
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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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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably. ~John Bunyan
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
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Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. ~Jan Karon
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A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. ~Matthew Henry
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But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn. ~Patricia Marx
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. ~Epictetus
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ~French Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you care about the people you work with then you work harder. ~Kristine Lilly
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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