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"It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder."
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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her."
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"People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you."
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"The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa - not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is 'you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say why not; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before."
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"We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children."
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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
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"I met the guys through a friend of a friend, and their former drummer had quit. I wasn't too familiar with the Chili Peppers before that, so I joined at the end of 88' and we finished recording Mother's Milk at the end of 89', next thing I know I'm in Spin with a sock."
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"My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked."
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"Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard."
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"My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you."
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"If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers."
God


"What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants."
War


"If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either."
Beauty


"Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies."
Life


"Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying."
Time


"Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do."
Science


"The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only."
Time


"There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men."
Men


"Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude."
Happiness


"Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without."
Security
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