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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I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I would bring things to class that I had cooked at home. ~Giada De Laurentiis
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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably. ~John Bunyan
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. ~Matthew Henry
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn. ~Patricia Marx
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. ~Epictetus
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If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
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