The past is where you learned the lesson. The future is where you apply the lesson. Don't give up in the middle. – Dale Carnegie

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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

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In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational emotional relationship with the child. Somebody's got to be crazy about that kid. That's number one. First, last and always.

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In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

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The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation.

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Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results. — Norman Vincent Peale

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One of the greatest things about playing a villain is people wondering when he's going to make his comeback. -Michael McMillian

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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender. — Tupac Shakur

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How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man. -Johnny Cash

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