Quotes with one-child

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  • Abraham Lincoln The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
    The wit and wisdom of Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Adolph P. Gouthey The best training any parent can give a child is to train the child to train himself.
    Adolph P. Gouthey
    American writer
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  • Bill Simmons The best under-the-radar rivalry is Dodgers-Giants. I had no idea how deep that one was until I moved to California... that one goes waaaaaaaaay back, and both sides absolutely detest each other. Fights in the stands, fights in the parking lot, the whole thing. It's every bit as bitter as Yankees-Red Sox without nearly the same hype.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Bob Harrington The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.
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  • Napoleon The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The best way to please one half of the world is not to mind, what the other half says.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • James A. Froude The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Noam Chomsky The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Jules Feiffer The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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  • Brendan Myers The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Albert Einstein The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Billy Gibbons The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • B. B. King The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Richard Bach The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Jean Rostand The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Tom Robbins The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
    Tom Robbins
    American novelist (1932 - )
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  • Raymond Chandler The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Hermann Hesse The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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