Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid? ~Lynda Barry
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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Do not try and save yourself. The self that is trying to be saved is not you. ~Mooji
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be. ~Anna Kendrick
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor. ~Paul A. Baran
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish 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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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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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed. ~Azerbaijani Proverb
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances. ~James Broughton
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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Your birthday will always be remembered in a special way, because you have brought so much happiness into the lives of those who are close to you. Happy birthday to you!
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I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that make life interesting. ~Linda Ronstadt
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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