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Epictetus

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

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Being Strong

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

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4th Of July

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.

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Erma Bombeck

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

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F. Burton Howard

Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don’t expose it to the elements. You don’t make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.

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Abraham Lincoln

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

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Adrienne Rich

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

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Agatha Christie

A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

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Al Neuharth

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

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Albert Einstein

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

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Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

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Albert Einstein

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

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Albert Einstein

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

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Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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Albert Einstein

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

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