"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in." - Leonardo da Vinci
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"The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going." - David Starr Jordan
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"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." - Doris Lessing
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"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow." - Charlotte Bronte
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"I think about how there are certain people who come into your life and leave a mark. The ones who are as much a part of you as your own soul. Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless. If you had a lifetime to talk, there would still be things left unsaid." - Sara Zarr
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"What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality." - Daniel Webster
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"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give." - Eleanor Roosevelt
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"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again." - Quaker Proverb
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"Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once." - Paulo Coelho
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"To think about your life is to create it. You have to take ownership of where you are right now and know where you want to go before you can get there. Keep collecting evidence for your success. You can believe it, and you can be it." - Ali Vincent
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"There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now." - James A. Baldwin
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"The purpose of life is a life of purpose." - Robert Byrne
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"When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be." - Molly Wizenberg
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"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity." - Francis Maitland Balfour
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"The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children." - Elaine Heffner
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"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character." - Hosea Ballou
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"We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration." - Olive Schreiner
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"Motherly love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible." - Marion C. Garretty
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"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world." - Agatha Christie
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"One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it." - Henry Moore
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"Teaching is not a lost art, but regard for teaching is a lost tradition." - Jacques Barzun
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"Start every day off with a smile and get it over with." - W. C. Fields
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"God answers knee-mail." - Author Unknown
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"The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature." - Steven Wright
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"Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing?" - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - Don Marquis
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"A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world." - John Locke
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"I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts." - Bethania McKenstry
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"There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path." - Morpheus - The Matrix
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"Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word." - Goran Persson
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