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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Benjamin Franklin

Small, Makes, Himself

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Good, Advantage, Pleased

If I get married, I want to be very married.
Audrey Hepburn

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Jackie Kennedy

Children, Else, Whatever

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert Camus

Free, Become, Act

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius

Life, Happy, Yourself

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
William Shakespeare

Dream, Shadow, Ambitious

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Oscar Wilde

Sad, Useless, Nowadays

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
Pope John Paul II

Faith, Fear, Moving

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Good, Great, Character

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Friendship, Woman, May

I dote on his very absence.
William Shakespeare

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Khalil Gibran

Power, Justice, Political

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
Erich Fromm

Love, Mother, Help

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan

Politics, Realize, Close

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
Khalil Gibran

Knowledge, Mother, Self

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
Voltaire

God, Made, Short

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Benjamin Franklin

Sure, Nobody, Determined

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
Martin Luther

Heart, Hell, Afraid

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
Benjamin Franklin

Wars, Expensive, Follies

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Power, Human

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
Joseph Campbell

Love, Marriage, Spiritual

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Very few of us are what we seem.
Agatha Christie

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
Jim Morrison

Hatred, Emotion

One is very crazy when in love.
Sigmund Freud

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx

Time, Book, Find

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
John F. Kennedy

Stand, Move, United

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
John F. Kennedy

Work, Real, Him

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time, Good, Times

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey

Yourself, Moment, Sure

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