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• A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

  ― Robert Byrne
  American author (1928 - 2013)
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• A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.

  ― C. S. Lewis
  Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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• A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

  ― Billy Graham
  American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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• A recipe is not an exact formula, but it does need a certain structure. When the bones are right, you can dress it in many ways.

  ― Bee Wilson
  British food writer, journalist and historian
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• A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.

  ― Rob Cella
   
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• A right is not what someone gives you, it's what no one can take away from you.

  ― Ramsey Clark
  American lawyer and activist (1927 - )
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• A rolling stone can gather no moss.

  ― Publilius Syrus
  Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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• A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?'' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. ''Yet,'' added he, ''none of you can tell where it pinches me.

  ― Plutarch
  Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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• A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

  ― Annie Dillard
  American author (1945 - )
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• A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

  ― William Hazlitt
  English writer (1778 - 1830)
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• A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

  ― Leo Buscaglia
  American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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• A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

  ― Bryan Adams
  Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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• A State can sue for negligence as well as fraud damages.

  ― Barbara Ann Radnofsky
  American politician, author and mediator (1956 - )
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• A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.

  ― David Brinkley
  American newsreader (1920 - 2003)
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• A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

  ― David Brink
   
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• A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

  ― Homer
  Greek poet (850 - 750)
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• A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

  ― Baltasar Gracian
  Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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• A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

  ― Burt Bacharach
  American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

  ― Henry Brooks Adams
  American historian (1838 - 1918)
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• A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

  ― John Ruskin
  English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• relationship
• scaffolding
• sympathetic
• negligence
• successful
• foundation

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