"Sometimes forgiveness is the hardest thing to give, but the most cherished thing to receive."
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"If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up."
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"The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us."
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"We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD."
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"Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess"
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"Repetition is sometimes the best way to deal with the Luideag: just keep saying the same thing over and over until she gets fed up and gives you what you want. All preschoolers have an instinctive grasp of this concept, but most don’t practice it on immortal water demons. That’s probably why there are so few disembowelments in your average preschool."
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"We're sitting in the dark willing to sell our souls for another peppermint with enough uranium to give a terrorist a wet dream. - Diana"
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"Patience is probably the hardest thing I've had to learn in tryin' to love a girl. My lifestyle is very fast-paced; I'm always goin' somewhere, always on stage, and when I perform I perform at a high intensity. Sometimes I carry that energy off of the stage, into my private life. Sometimes I encounter girls who want me to take my time. When you're such a fast-paced, in the fast lane kinda guy, you don't really take the time that's necessary; you're like, "I want it now! If you can't give it to me now, well then." And from that, you end up losin' a lot of great people."
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"I am relieved that, in my own teaching, I don't have to moderate between high stake teaching and education for the virtues. If I did, I would give students the tools to take the tests but not spend an inordinate amount of time on test prep nor on 'teaching to the test.' If the students, or their parents, want drill in testing, they'd have to go elsewhere. As a professional, my most important obligation is to teach the topic, skills, and methods in ways that I feel are intellectually legitimate."
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"We came out here to find the American Dream, and now that we're right in the vortex you want to quit ... You must realize that we've found the main nerve." I know," he said. "That's what gives me the Fear."
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"He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many."
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"[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him."
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"I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands." "They're not empty now."
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"Give a pup a home and a little love and he will give you his heart forever."
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"Bears being sent through the mail should never be squashed up to make them fit. It gives them indigestion."
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"XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile,shyly obscene (lady i will touch you with my mind.)Touch you,that is all, lightly and you utterly will become with infinite care the poem which i do not write."
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"One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course."
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"She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love."
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"Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along."
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"Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends."
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