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I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her lif

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display. – Anna Quindlen

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But its important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated. – Anna Quindlen

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respect
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Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and dont discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, its stupid. Banning books shows you dont trust your kids to think and you dont trust yourself to be able to talk to them. – Anna Quindlen

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I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words. – Anna Quindlen

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There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration. – Lewis Carroll

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You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure theyre all pointed in the right direction. – Mark Pincus

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The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience. – Lech Walesa

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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. – Walter Scott

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I try and have a relaxed attitude and stay quite switched off until about an hour before kick-off. – Roy Keane

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Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant. – David Attenborough

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Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: Id already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy. – Jack Kemp

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