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Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for. - Ogden Nash

Depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously towards himself will act so towards others, and vice versa. - Lavater

Mustgo: Any item of food that has been sitting in the refrigerator so long it has become a science project. - Sniglets, Rich Hall & Friends

This above all: to thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day thou cans't not then be false to any man. - Shakespeare

Adults are obsolete children. - Dr. Seuss

Expressing anger is a form of public littering. - Willard Gaylin

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! - Albert Einstein

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life - to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them. - Alfred Torrie

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. - Pearl S. Buck