Kissing power is stronger than will power.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENPsychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.
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It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It’s cruel, it’s brutal, it’s inhumane, and most people don’t want it.
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Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does – except wrinkles. It’s true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
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Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you’ve got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.
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The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
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The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
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Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!
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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
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So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
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Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.
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If you don’t value what you have, you’re sure to lose it.
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Kids grow up awfully fast these days,”she said. “You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.
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Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you’re supervised or not; finish a job once it’s started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
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While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
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