Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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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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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan proverb
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ~Indian Proverb
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
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I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be. ~Anna Kendrick
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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