"A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm."

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"A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm."

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"If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person."

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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

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"He not busy being born is busy dying."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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"Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar."

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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

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"You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told."

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"The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas."

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"Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem."

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"To God, thy country, and thy friend be true."

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