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all daughters, even when most aggravated by their mothers, have a secret respect for them. They believe perhaps that they can do everything better than their mothers can, and many things they can do better, but they have not yet lived long enough to be sure how successfully they will meet the major emergencies of life, which lie, sometimes quite creditably, behind their mothers.
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Most of the pathetic scenes in almost everybody's life are scenes unnoted by anyone and totally disregarded by the person in question.
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Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.
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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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I don't like it when people don't know the difference between 'their', 'they're', 'there'.
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One of the West's singular migrations--from the Azores to California's Great Central Valley--is given faces and voices in Anthony Barcellos's new novel, Land of Milk and Money. Along with its triumphs, the Francisco family embodies the challenges to an immigrant family in a new land, including the often ignored difficulties posed by success and the loss of the old culture. A must read...
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When I was growing up, we always had music playing in our household. I enjoy spending time with my father singing.
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It is the focus on the highest ideal day after day that saves life from being wrapped up in small whirlwinds.
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The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds.
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I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed.
