"It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around."
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"Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety."
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"I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith."
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"Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother."
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"The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror."
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"I don't think you're much good, unless you're doing good to someone."
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"Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle."
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"In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time."
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"I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it."
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"More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause."
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"Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none."
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"I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece."
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"I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved."
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"There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear."
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"I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world."
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"It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies."
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"What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?"
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"I am just an old-fashioned girl."
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"Life isn't about milestones, it's about moment"
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"My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative."
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