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“The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.”
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“That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.”
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“In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.”
Source : "America’s Shameful Moments" by Jeff Hawkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2011.
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“No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.”
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“Lizzie Bright Griffin, do you ever wish the world would just go ahead and swallow you whole?" "Sometimes I do," she said, and then smiled. "but sometimes I figure I should just go ahead and swallow it.”
Source : Gary D. Schmidt (2004). “Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.”
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“The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied.”
Source : Song: I Am Mine
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“It was not one folly that Shakespeare talked about. If Love truly is but a myriad of follies then I have committed them all, that can mean only one thing - I loved her truly, madly, deeply!”