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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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Ernest Hemingway

Never mistake motion for action.

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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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Farrah Gray

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

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Flip Wilson

You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine.

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Florence Nightingale

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

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Abraham Lincoln

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

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Abraham Lincoln

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

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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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Aesop

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

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Albert Camus

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

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Albert Einstein

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

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Albert Einstein

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

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Albert Einstein

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

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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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