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• Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
• Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.
• Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't…
• You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
• Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved…
• The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
• I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.
• This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who…
• Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.
• She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.
• What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when…
• It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments,…

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