Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. ~Robert Harris
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic 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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Once I saw my parents argue because we didn't have a lot of money anymore. So, I did what I had to do. I got my piggy bank and I went out to the backyard and buried it. ~Jack Handey
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Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously? ~Steve Stevaert
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Children see things very well sometimes, and idealists even better. ~Lorraine Hansberry
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. ~Jon Scieszka
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth. ~Gautama Buddha
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different. ~Mike Pence
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
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