"A man does what he must -- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers -- and this is the basis of all human morality."

Kennedy, John F. on obstacles
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"Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity."

Johnson on humankind   

"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."

Cicero, Marcus T. on silence
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"Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on conversation   

"The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk."

Santayana, George on conversation   

"In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge."

Herbert, George on conversation   

"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

Bernard, St. on love
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"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore on love
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"Women make love for love, men make love for lust."

Harge, Derrick on women
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"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom."

Krishnamurti, Jiddu on freedom
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"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."

Byron, Lord on passion
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"That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on love
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"Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life."

Buckrose, J.E on happiness
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"It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all."

Thackeray, William M. on infatuation
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"One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness."

Pavese, Cesare on infatuation
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"He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on christians and christianity
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"To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming."

Proverb, English on talkativeness
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"Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is."

Proverb, English on poverty and the poor   

"You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders."

Proverb, English on parents and parenting
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"Words are alive; cut them and they bleed."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on words
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"You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."

Frost, Robert on parents and parenting
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"The rising power of the United States in world affairs requires, not a more compliant press, but a relentless barrage of facts and criticism. Our job in this age, as I see it, is not to serve as cheerleaders for our side in the present world struggle but to help the largest possible number of people to see the realities of the changing and convulsive world in which American policy must operate."

Reston, James on america   

"We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans."

Askew, Ruben on america
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"The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on family
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"The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes."

Maynard, Joyce on parents and parenting   

"Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist."

Levine, Michael on parents and parenting
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"Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation."

Koop, C. Everett on parents and parenting
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"To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons."

French, Marilyn on parents and parenting
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"A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary."

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield on parents and parenting
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"If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent."

Davis, Bette on parents and parenting
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"My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it."

Crisp, Quentin on parents and parenting
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"We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves."

Beecher, Henry Ward on parents and parenting
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"The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder."

Morrison, Jim on parents and parenting
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"Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections."

Ruskin, John on children   

"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality."

Santayana, George on parents and parenting   

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"The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants."

Shakespeare, William on family
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"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness."

Wilde, Oscar on parents and parenting
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"The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children."

Windsor, Edward, Duke of on parents and parenting   

"The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears."

Bacon, Francis on parents and parenting
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