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Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

—Og Mandino

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There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers, but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.

—Melanie Benjamin

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You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.

—Brock Chisholm

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If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

—C. S. Lewis

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The point is that no matter what your feelings are, your children will be better off if you make them your central focus and work diligently at keeping the parenting relationship civil and cooperative.

—Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran

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As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

—Francis Bacon

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A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.

—Winston Churchill

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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

—Anne-Sophie Swetchine

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We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.

—Marcel Proust

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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

—Gloria Naylor

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If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

—Malcolm Gladwell

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Part of being a Master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own.

—Hugh Macleod

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Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

—Anna Lappe

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Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

—William Shakespeare

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