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• Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  English poet (1806 - 1861)
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• Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.

  Brenda Laurel
  American video game designer and researcher (1950 - )
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• Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love was tennis.

  Boris Becker
  German tennis player (1967 - )
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• Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

  Oliver Goldsmith
  Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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• Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.

  Anzia Yezierska
  Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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• Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
  

  Marilyn Monroe
  American actress (1926 - 1962)
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• Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

  Thomas J. Peters
  American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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• Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!

  Bill Owen
   
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• Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

  C. Neil Strait
  American priest and author (1934 - 2003)
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• Give a man health and a course to steer; and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

  Abraham Kaplan
  American philosopher
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• Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

  John Greenleaf Whittier
  American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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• Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

  Desiderius Erasmus
  Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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• Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

  John Ruskin
  English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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• Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

  B. F. Skinner
  American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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• Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

  Gioacchino Antonio Rossini
   
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• Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

  Archimedes
  Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer (287 - 212)
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• Give me a man who says, ''This one thing I do,'' and not, ''These fifty things, I dabble in.

  Dwight L. Moody
  American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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• Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

  James Cash Penney
  American businessman and entrepreneur (1875 - 1971)
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• Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

  St. Augustine of Hippo
  Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• single-handed
• withholding
• meaningful
• everything
• encounters
• continence

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