S. S. Van Dine Quotes
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When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.
Vicki Lawrence
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Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.
Yoshihiko Noda
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I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.
Naftali Bennett
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During the day, I don't wear much makeup; I only put on makeup for the show.
Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
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Time and space may separate us, but not the thoughts and memories that bind us.
Ed Parker
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Love is a handful of seeds, marriage the garden, and like your gardens, Paula, marriage requires total commitment, hard work, and a great deal of love and care. Be ruthless with the weeds. Pull them out before they take hold. Bring the same dedication to your marriage that you do to your gardens and everything will be all right. Remember that a marriage has to be constantly replenished too, if you want it to flourish.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
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Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
Louis Nizer
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I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
J. C. Ryle
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Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.
Quentin Crisp
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We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them.
Donald Miller
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It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language
Jane Austen
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Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand, serves to confirm old mindsets, rigid categories. Artists, who live in the same world as the rest of us, steer clear of these mindsets to make us see things anew.
Ellen Langer
