When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. ~Louis Pasteur
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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The Senate is now considering increasing government subsidies for corn growers to produce more ethanol. If we produce enough ethanol we can postpone our next invasion of a Middle Eastern country for two to three years. ~Jay Leno
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I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair. ~Viktor E. Frankl
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I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole. ~Arthur Capper
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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You can almost taste the pressure now. ~Vin Scully
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I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor. ~Ray Liotta
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws. ~Ernest Holmes
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Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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