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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If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. ~David Suzuki
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I have the courage of my convictions. ~Brigitte Bardot
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For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ~Helen Suzman
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A thief believes everybody steals. ~Proverb
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In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity. ~Sun Tzu
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I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is. ~Mos Def
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The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin. ~Pope Pius IX
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There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just let go of your "demand" on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You are arguing with "what is." Your demands keep you chained to the "dream state" of the conditioned mind. The desire to "control" is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake. ~Adyashanti
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
#quotes #tom-hanks #50s #generation

Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. ~Richard Reti
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I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. ~Alain Robert
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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In Mallrats, you pretty much don't see him sell any weed, really. I don't consider him a big dealer. ~Jason Mewes
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
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