Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

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When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done. - Stephen King

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Not the stars, not the farthest solar systems, not the millions of different species of animal life, but the child is the greatest of God's creations.

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The news of my death is greatly exaggerated. ― W.C. Fields

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I'm free of all prejudices. I hate all people equally. ― W.C. Fields

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I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.

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I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes. -Jimi Hendrix

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Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

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The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone...How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?

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If I have held a part of myself back from my children, I have obviously spent some time calculating the expense of being a father. And the fact is, a real father doesn't do that kind of math. ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

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