"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
-Les Brown
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"Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.“
-Les Brown
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"Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you."
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"When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up."
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"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."
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"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
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"The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible."
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"More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue."
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"But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people."
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"I've always known I wanted a family."
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"And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure."
-Bob Geldof
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