Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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I am too pure for you or anyone. ~Sylvia Plath
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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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Faith will move mountains. ~English Proverb
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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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If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor. ~Jennifer James
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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances. ~Bryan Adams
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In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma. ~Greg Boyle
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. ~Ridley Scott
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size. ~Kurdish Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. ~Lionel Hampton
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same. ~Barbara Kingsolver
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Talk to me when I am bored. Be with me when I am sad. Hug me when i cry. Care for me when I am sick. Don't ever cry for me when I die! Just treasure me when I am alive.
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Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese. ~Suzanne Collins
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