“ The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended — and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
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“ I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation. ”
- Isaac Asimov- Copy
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“ Accept good advice gracefully — as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place. ”
- Gene Brown- Copy
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“ Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
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“ If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers. ”
- Linda Henley- Copy
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“ In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ Life is not meant to be a burden. Life is not a problem to be solved. It is a blessing to be celebrated. ”
- Joan Chittister- Copy
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“ The "private sector" of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and...the "public sector" is, in fact, the coercive sector. ”
- Henry Hazlitt- Copy
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“ We've got a newfound dedication to being the newsy alternative,... We've always intended to be that, but we haven't quite been as up to that as we should have. ”
- Jonathan Klein- Copy
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“ Now just vengeance is taken only for that which is done unjustly; hence that which provokes anger is always something considered in the light of an injustice. ”
- St. Thomas Aquinas- Copy
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“ A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ I love skating so much and I feel like every time I step out onto the ice, that's what I'm meant to do. ”
- Clara Hughes- Copy
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“ Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank — but that's not the same thing. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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“ It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality! ”
- Harold Sherman- Copy
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“ I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ”
- Galileo Galilei- Copy
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“ Cards were at first for benefits designed: sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind. ”
- David Garrick- Copy
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“ O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant; And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
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“ Let each one do just as he has purposed in his heart; not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ It's a little too early to tell what happened,... This had the appearance of a well-planned and well-negotiated deal that was designed to be released on Monday. ”
- Joseph Campbell- Copy
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“ To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ O woman, perfect woman! what distractionWas meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil! ”
- John Fletcher- Copy
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“ We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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“ Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray. ”
- William Makepeace Thackeray- Copy
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“ The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time. ”
- John Pearson- Copy
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“ It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen. ”
- Dolly Parton- Copy
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“ It functions like an afterthought. We couldn't have designed a greater invitation to unhappiness. ”
- Newt Gingrich- Copy
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