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Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another? Patricia Polacco

Me You Be Kind Kind Another Understand Maybe Just Hard Why Enlighten

There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air. Peter Mayle

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We fear the thing we want the most. Robert Anthony

Fear Most Want Thing

Patterns of repetition govern each day, week, year, and lifetime. 'Personal habits' is one term we use to describe the most common of these repeated patterns. But I say these habits are sacred because they give deliberate structure to our lives. Structure gives us a sense of security. And that sense of security is the ground of meaning. Robert Fulghum

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Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Robert Fulghum

You Hurt People Somebody Sorry Say People Say Fair Hit Play

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Robert Fulghum

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Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That's because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from. Robert Kiyosaki

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The thing most people don't pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It's 24/7. Robert Kiyosaki

People Entrepreneur Become Never Pick Most Up Ends Thing

As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman. Rose Kennedy

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The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror. Rose Kennedy

Time You Will Mirror Come Look Disgust

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety. Rose Kennedy

Learning Anxiety Neither Atmosphere Comprehension Take Nor Place

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life. Rose Kennedy

Writing the perfect paper is a lot like a military operation. It takes discipline, foresight, research, strategy, and, if done right, ends in total victory. Ryan Holiday

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Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery. Sam Harris

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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault. Sam Harris

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Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science. Sam Harris

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite. Sam Levenson

Wise Simple Stupid Think Say Something Opposite Just

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. Samuel Johnson

Broken Strong Too Weak Habit Until Felt Chains

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. Samuel Johnson

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No man was ever great by imitation. Samuel Johnson

Great Man Imitation Ever

I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power. Sandra Cisneros

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Stop being a critic and be a light; don't be a judge, be a model. I think we are far too critical. I think the best way to correct behavior is to accentuate and affirm positive behavior and to ignore negative behavior. Generally speaking, there is a time to correct, of course; but my biggest advice would be, 'Affirm your child.' Sean Covey

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