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It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.
(Louisa May Alcott)
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Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
(Louisa May Alcott )
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I don’t think anyone strives to be anything negative. I just think that it’s our nature to only focus on a few things in life and forget about a lot of other stuff.
(Madonna Ciccone)
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I don’t think ultimately God punishes. I think we bring about our own destruction or our own creation.
(Madonna Ciccone)
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There are people who like to work in chaos, and some people work better under that, and create that sort of chaos, but that makes a set not necessarily very fun. I like to work on sets that don't have that.
(George Clooney)
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Both of my grandparents died of lung cancer. So I got quite a lesson in the payback later in life of smoking, and if you keep it up how bad it can be
(George Clooney)
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I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.
(Socrates)
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The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
(Socrates)
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My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves
(Socrates)
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I have a dream," he said slowly. "I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends -- and YOU!
(Lucy Maud Montgomery)
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Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.
(Lucy Maud Montgomery)
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When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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The only way I've been able to survive the betrayal of lovers, family members, and society is to be able to create as an artist.
(Madonna Ciccone)
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I’ve created a very unconventional family. I have lovers who are three decades younger than me. This makes people very uncomfortable
(Madonna Ciccone)
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Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some sort of nuclear holocaust, at some point, everybody was pretty hopeful.
(George Clooney)
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I grew up at a time where I think most people had a social and political conscience. Some of the biggest changes in our country's political history happened at the time I was growing up, so I was raised to be a part of those things and to participate and I will continue to do that as much as I can.
(George Clooney)
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The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
(Arthur Conan Doyle)
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