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“The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.”
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“Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Somewhere in the world is...The world's worst doctor and he could be yours.”
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“Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.”
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“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
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