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The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.: David Richerby
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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Einstein said God doesn't play dice with the universe, but I don't know--maybe not as a whole, but I think he gets a pretty big kick out of messing in peoples' back yards.: Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde, Northern Exposure, Roots, 1991
Trust that your child is trying to be the best he can be and that he will do this more readily without your criticism. Know that he usually sees his own faults without you continually pointing them out.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.: David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931), The Philosophy of Despair
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.: W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
There is…nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.: H. R. Schaffer, O Magazine, May 2003
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No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.: Teena Booth, Falling From Fire
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I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.: Lillian Carter
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The only gift is a portion of thyself.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.: Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005
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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
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Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880), 'Mr. Gilfil's Love Story,' Scenes of Clerical Life, 1857
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