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My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: 'Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.'
Tony Oller
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I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.


Naftali Bennett
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I always find the worst lies are told in relationships - I learned to never lie about your happiness in order to save someone's feelings from being hurt.
Kirsten Prout
I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that.
Peter Davison
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I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.


Catherine Deneuve
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I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.
Nina Bawden
During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.'
Naomi Shihab Nye
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Of course, the discounting of future earnings should hurt all stocks. But it should hurt technology stocks more than others, because so many of them are valued at extremely high levels relative to their current earnings.
Alex Berenson
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
John Wooden
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Children, if they haven't been introduced to foods by the time they're 3 years old, are afraid of it, as if it would hurt them. They don't really get out of that until they're 6 or 7 - it's a safety mechanism, and you're not going to win.
Tyler Florence
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I work with a lot of young people who have poems that are changing their lives, that they're eager to talk about, but every now and then when I meet someone, maybe someone of my parents' generation, and I tell them that I write poetry, they'll begin to recite something that they memorized when they were in school that has never left them.
Tracy K. Smith
I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. Reading by reading, I just kind of follow my nose.
Eileen Myles
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To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.


Max Lerner
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Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.
Allan Bloom
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Each year, several million children either die or suffer irreparable developmental defects because of vitamin A deficiency. Countless others are harmed by malnutrition and starvation. Yet many of these deaths would be preventable if we addressed them head on and used the tools that exist to stop them.
Richard J. Roberts
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I have deep feelings for the welfare and comfort of others.


DeForest Kelley
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As you get older, the defeats become more painful. They definitely hurt more.


Brian O'Driscoll
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Both of them were the children of the United States. They sacrificed their children for the benefit of the others. But they were not very devoted children of the United States.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.


Jack Horner
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