My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ~Ice T
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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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Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away. ~Proverb
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chicken. My mom always made home-cooked meals. We always sat down at the dinner table as a family. ~Haylie Duff
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To be a team, you must be a family. ~Don Meyer
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All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree; I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing. ~Andrea Corr
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~Plato
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
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Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ~William Griffith Wilson
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Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for. ~Brian Tracy
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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I tried spinning around in a chair to impress a girl. ~Ray Toro
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
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