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Children can withstand a lot of pressure and trial from the outside if the home inside is held steady by parents whose character is steady.
Stuart Briscoe
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If I heard a girl crying help
I would go to save her;
But you hardly ever hear those words.
Dear children, you must try to say
Something when you are in need.
Don't confuse hunger with greed;
And don't wait until you are dead.
Ruth Stone
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I had always suspected that trying to play golf in the company of big-time pros and a gallery would be something like walking naked into choir practice.
Dan Jenkins
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An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power and the erosion of the natural, social, and moral capital that such abuses commonly exacerbate.
David Korten
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The Marines fought almost solely on esprit de corps, I was certain. It was inconceivable to most Marines that they should let another Marine down, or that they could be responsible for dimming the bright reputation of their Corps. The Marines simply assumed that they were the world's best fighting men.
Robert Sherrod
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Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.
Simon Raven
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Things should be judged by distance traveled rather than by current position.
Andrew Davidson (author)
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Life goes by rapidly. Don't delay. Don't put it off. Don't wait until you have some spare time. Don't wait until the time's 'right'.
Ken Keyes, Jr.
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The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.
David Whyte (poet)
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But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall.
James K. Baxter
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Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken.
Jackie Kay
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Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.
Dani Shapiro
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Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.
Reginald Horace Blyth
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Ireland regards sex, when she regards it at all, with an entirely primitive and practical eye.
Susan Mitchell
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Enchanted worlds still exist because the child within us never dies. The doorways may be more obscure, but we can still seek them out. There are still noble adventures to undertake. There are still trees that speak and caverns that lead to nether realms. There will always be faeries and elves within nature because they will always be dancing in our hearts.
Ted Andrews
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His students were hardly in a position to tell him when he was getting windy, and he had recently noticed, as most professors did after a while, that his lectures mysteriously seemed to be getting longer with time.
Aaron Elkins
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Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.
Marabel Morgan
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The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind.
Mark Haskell Smith
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Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being.
Sara Maitland
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Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.
Richard Marcinko
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I truly believe that our major social ills would disappear if we just spent our lives perfecting the art of connecting with each other.
Sean Stephenson
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Malcolm was our manhood, our living black manhood! This was his meaning to his people. And, in honoring him, we honor the best in ourselves.... And we shall know him then for what he was and is—a prince, our own black shining Prince!—who didn't hesitate to die, because he loved us so.
Ossie Davis
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While you're alive, the IRS will attempt to take what you've made. When you're not, the IRS will attempt to take what it missed.
Charles J. Givens
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None of us can afford to pay the price of resenting...because of what it does to us.
Marion D. Hanks
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What a recovery of the wisdom of the Mother brings to all of us is the knowledge of inseparable connection with the entire creation and the wise, active love that is born from that knowledge.
Andrew Harvey (religious writer)
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