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Seiko
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#1
“Father!
My father knows the proper way
The nation should be run;
He tells us children every day
Just what should now be done.
He knows the way to fix the trusts,
He has a simple plan;
But if the furnace needs repairs,
We have to hire a man.
My father, in a day or two
Could land big thieves in jail;
There's nothing that he cannot do,
He knows no word like "fail."
"Our confidence" he would restore,
Of that there is no doubt;
But if there is a chair to mend,
We have to send it out.
All public questions that arise,
He settles on the spot;
He waits not till the tumult dies,
But grabs it while it's hot.
In matters of finance he can
Tell Congress what to do;
But, O, he finds it hard to meet
His bills as they fall due.
It almost makes him sick to read
The things law-makers say;
Why, father's just the man they need,
He never goes astray.
All wars he'd very quickly end,
As fast as I can write it;
But when a neighbor starts a fuss,
'Tis mother has to fight it.
In conversation father can
Do many wondrous things;
He's built upon a wiser plan
Than presidents or kings.
He knows the ins and outs of each
And every deep transaction;
We look to him for theories,
But look to ma for action”
―
Edgar Albert Guest
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#2
“If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.”
―
Paulo Coelho
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#3
“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”
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Paulo Coelho,
The Zahir
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#4
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
―
Paulo Coelho,
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
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#5
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
―
Thomas A. Edison
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#6
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
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Albert Einstein
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#7
“Love her but leave her wild.”
―
Atticus
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