"There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night."

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Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

#Night Quotes #Insomnia Quotes #Fifty Quotes

“Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!”
“Death - Death can be faced, dealt with, adjusted to, outlived. It's the not knowing that destroys interminably... This being suspended in suspense; waiting - weightless, How does one face the faceless, adjust to nothing? Waiting implies something to wait for. Is there? There is One. One who knows... I rest my soul on that.”

Source : Ruth Bell Graham (2007). “Footprints of a Pilgrim”, p.138, Thomas Nelson Inc
“The hot, moist smell of babies fresh from naps.”

Source : Barbara Lazear Ascher (1987). “Playing after dark”, HarperCollins
“It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.”
“Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.”

Source : "Bibi, Moses, and Churchill" by Rabbi Michael M. Cohen, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2015.
“Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.”
“If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that book later, or books like that, they will be able to read them - which is why even a fifth grade teacher, even a tenth grade teacher, should still be reading to children aloud. There is always something that is too intractable for kids to read on their own.”
“At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security.”

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