#adopted

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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.


Plato


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Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.


Betty Hill


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Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.


Harpo Marx


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The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.


George Bancroft


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I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.


Jimmy Carter


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I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.


Andrew Vachss


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Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.


William Cobbett


#adopted #generally #integrity #men #obstinate

I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris.


Asia Argento


#french #go #i #live #paris

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.


Richard Cobden


#any #because #bodies #combined #come

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.


Benjamin Franklin


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