"Food is an important part of a balanced diet." - Fran Lebowitz
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"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen." - Ernest Hemingway
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"If you pray for rain, be prepared to deal with some mud." - Mary Englebreit
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"Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both." - Joseph Wood Krutch
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"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Sometimes a short walk down memory lane is all it takes to appreciate where you are today." - Susan Gale
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"Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm." - Pamela Ribon
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"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one." - Jane Howard
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"The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O." - Martin Mull
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"To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit." - Robert J. Furey
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"The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them." - Henry Bolingbroke
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"The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever." - Anatole France
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"A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?" - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991
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"I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." - Christopher Reeve
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"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments." - Benjamin Franklin
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"It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared." - Whitney Young Jr.
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"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream." - Khalil Gibran
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"Tolerance is the virtue of a man that has no convictions." - C.S. Lewis
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"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars." - Og Mandino
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it." - Samuel Johnson
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"The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear." - Herbert Agar
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"Every pilot needs a co-pilot, and let me tell you, it is awful nice to have someone sitting there beside you, especially when you hit some bumpy air." - Eric Wald
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"There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom." - John Locke
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"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher." - Elbert Hubbard
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"Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will be many fruits, here in this world and the life to come." - Henri Nouwen
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"The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it! (It's rather like getting tenure.)" - Daniel Dennett
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"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand." - Mark Twain
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"Strength of character isn't always about how much you can handle before you break, it's also about how much you can handle after you've broken." - Robert Tew
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"Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys." - Gail Pool
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"Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date." - Dale Carnegie
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