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Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I h

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. – Thomas Mann

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An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. – Thomas Mann

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You dont have to give birth to someone to have a family. – Sandra Bullock

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Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house. – Elizabeth Warren

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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed. – Rachael Ray

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In my family, we let our boys have a say in what veggie side they want for dinner that night. We list off a handful of options and get them excited about helping to plan the dinner menu. Theyre much more inclined to finish their plates when theyve helped decide what goes on them. – Cat Cora

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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. – Anais Nin

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I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive. Yes, I think that those issues are very interesting to play in a character, and theyre prominent issues in life, and I think people can relate to them. – Channing Tatum

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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. – Proverb

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