A.A. Milne quote: "How does one become butterfly?' Pooh asked pensively.<br />'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar,' Piglet replied.<br />'You mean to die?' asked Pooh.<br />'Yes and no,' he answered. 'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will live on."

Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?"
"I ought to say," explained Pooh ...
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His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.
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I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
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Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he h...
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What day is it?"
It's today," squeaked Piglet.
My favorite day," said Pooh.
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy wor...
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You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to the...
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Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing,...
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I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we...
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The things that make me different are the things that make me.
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[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always...
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Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.
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Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gr...
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People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.
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No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, an...
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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
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Then, suddenly again, Christopher Robin, who was still looking at the world, with his chin in his ha...
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But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when yo...
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I might have known,” said Eeyore. “After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends. Somebody ...
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Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
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How do you spell 'love'?" - Piglet
"You don't spell it...you feel it." - Pooh
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Oh Tigger, where are your manners?"

"I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun ...
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It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.
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Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh.
"Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a ...
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What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to your...
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Well, I've got an idea," said Rabbit, "and here it is. We take Tigger for a long explore, somewhere ...
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Would you mind coming with me, Piglet, in case they turn out to be Hostile Animals?
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What day is it?” It’s today, squeaked Piglet. My favorite day, said Pooh.
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What day is it,?” asked Pooh.
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
“My favorite day,�...
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The things that make me different are the things that make me ME. -Piglet
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It's so much more friendly with two.
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Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him.
Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody...
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Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
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I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.
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Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
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Think it over, think it under.
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A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
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Think, think, think.
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Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems ...
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When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
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What I like doing best is Nothing."

"How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wond...
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I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too.
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When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to ...
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Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Hon...
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I don’t feel very much like Pooh today," said Pooh.

"There there," said Piglet. "I’ll...
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I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.
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If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that h...
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said "Nobody.
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You never can tell with bees.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain."
"I know," said Pooh humbly.
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Bother.
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NOTPOHL
Endtegt vohn
PU
PU had in
gefuhnden
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We can't all, and some of us don't.
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Don't blame me if it rains.
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Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
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Eeyore", said Owl, "Christopher Robin is giving a party."
"Very interesting," said Eeyore. "I s...
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don’t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things y...
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It's a little Anxious," Piglet said to himself, "to be a
Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded ...
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How lucky am I to have something that makes saying good-bye so hard,
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You are stronger than you seem,
Braver than you believe,
and smarter than you think you ar...
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There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, t...
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You are braver than you believe,
Stronger than you seem,
And smarter than you think(:
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Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day.
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We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
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The word "lesson" came back to Pooh as one he had heard before somewhere.
"There's a thing cal...
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Piglet said that Tigger was very Bouncy, and that if they could think of a way of unbouncing him, it...
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To her-
Hand in hand we come
Christopher Robin and I
To lay this book in your lap. A.A. MILNE

And out floated Eeyore.
"Eeyore!" cried everybody.
Looking very calm, very dignified, wi...
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Piglet opened the letter box and climbed in. Then, having untied himself, he began to squeeze into t...
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Owl,' said Rabbit shortly, 'you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is easy thinking ...
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Hallo, Pooh,” said Rabbit.
“Hallo, Rabbit,” said Pooh dreamily.
“Did you make that...
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..."But what I like doing best is Nothing." "How do you do Nothing?" asked Pooh, after he had wonder...
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You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right.
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Owl," said Rabbit shortly, "you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking t...
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It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come." -Winnie-the-Pooh
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Which makes it a bothering sort of day.
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Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see the...
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. . . what I like doing best is Nothing."
"How do you do Nothing?" asked Pooh, after he had won...
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By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a rive...
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It was a drowsy summer afternoon, and the Forest was full of gentle sounds, which all seemed to be s...
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They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write...
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Owl explained about the Necessary Dorsal Muscles. He had explained this to Pooh and Christopher Robi...
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In a very little time they got to the corner of the field by the side of the pine wood where Eeyore'...
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When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which did...
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What do you say, Pooh?"
Pooh opened his eyes with a jerk and said, "Extremely."
"Extremely...
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It's your fault, Eeyore. You've never been to see any of us. You just stay here in this one corner o...
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They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.
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What do you like doing best in the world, Pooh?"
"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best-" and the...
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But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there... and anybody who...
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And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, look...
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Promise you won't forget me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred.
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But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things ...
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Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the...
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She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbo...
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Halfway down the stairs, is a stair, where I sit. There isn't any, other stair, quite like, it. I'm ...
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We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see
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I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.
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Hallo, Rabbit,” he said, “is that you?”
"Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit, “a...
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Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.
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If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.
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It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily.
"So it is."
"And freezing."
"Is it?"
...
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Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
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Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment.
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Drinking your milk and talking at the same time may result in your having to be patted on the back a...
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If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn't involve going bump, bump, bump, on th...
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When speaking to a Bear of Very Little Brain, remember that long words may bother him.
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When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don't stop and eat it along the w...
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Daffodowndilly

She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
She wore her greenest gown;
She...
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We can’t all and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it.
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Tut, Tut, looks like rain
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spel...
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“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up...
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How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
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Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slo...
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But [Pooh] couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn't. He tried counting Sheep,...
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Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right...
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You gave me Christopher Robin, and then
You breathed new life in Pooh.
Whatever of each ...
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The old grey donkey, Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the Forest, his front feet well ...
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One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.
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He was telling an interesting anecdote full of exciting words like "encyclopedia" and "rhododendron"...
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Vespers

Little Boy kneels at the foot of the bed,
Droops on the little hands little ...
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Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you...
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is onl...
A.A. MILNE

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the...
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My particular memory is of a quail-pie. Quails may be alright for Moses in the desert, but, if they ...
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The other day I met a man who didn't know where Tripoli was. Tripoli happened to come into the conve...
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I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn't anymore.
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I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there w...
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Sometimes, the smallest things take up the most room in your heart
A.A. MILNE

To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.
A.A. MILNE

You are BRAVER than you believe,
and STRONGER than you seem,
and SMARTER than you think
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Yin day, when Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh and Wee Grumphie were aw haein a crack thegither...
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And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself,
"it's Owl who knows someth...
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It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
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Get out of my chair, dillhole!
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Of course it's very hampering being a detective, when you don't know anything about detecting, and w...
A.A. MILNE

Let's look for dragons, I said to Pooh.
Yes, let's, said Pooh to Me.
We crossed the rive...
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Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when...
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I didn't bounce, I coughed," said Tigger crossly.
"Bouncy or coffy, it's all the same at the b...
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She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.
A.A. MILNE

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
A.A. (ALAN ALEXANDRA) MILNE

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
A.A. (ALAN ALEXANDRA) MILNE

I suppose that everyone of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him wh...
A.A. (ALAN ALEXANDRA) MILNE

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
A.A. (ALAN ALEXANDRA) MILNE

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A.A. (ALAN ALEXANDRA) MILNE

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
A.A. (ALAN ALEXANDRA) MILNE

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
A.A. MILNE (WINNIE THE POOH)

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
A.A. MILNE (WINNE THE POOH)

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
A.A. MILNE (WINNIE THE POOH)

Kalau yang memuji itu teman baik, itu biasa. Kalau yang mencela itu musuh, juga biasa. Tapi kalau ya...
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Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.
A.A. ATTANASIO

Once bitten twice shy? Sure, but... why not get a bigger dog and bite them back?
A.A. BELL

Remember what you always told me.”

“Hold on tight and fight as hard as you can.
A.A. FREDA

She always believed love was good and hate was much better. But, indifference would’ve made her a ...
A.A. GUPTE

I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I'll never get a chance to live!
A.A. BELL

It is difficult to have faith when our hearts are consumed by fear, but it is when we are afraid tha...
A.A. FRIAS

I didn't wait for Luck. I raced after it with a truck.
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Sound gives life to our words just as well as the images they conjure up and the sound is there, whe...
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I don't need to travel back in time to cause trouble. Seeing back through time finds me troub...
A.A. BELL

I didn't wait for Luck. I tore after it with a truck.
A.A. BELL

A blank page is no empty space. It is brimming with potential... It is a masterpiece in waiting -- y...
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Death would ease her pain and suffering, but it had succeeded in breaking his heart.
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I want to be really proactive in working with the progressive business community in Australia and al...
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We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment, in terms of people moving on to do ...
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We believe we've got the skill base and the techniques to supply the chips that really enable th...
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We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better batte...
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In terms of development of the company, the vast majority of our sales are in the Far East and we wi...
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This one was initially set up for an (X-ray type scanning) exam sometime during the next two or thre...
MIKE MILNE

If they have relatives in the U.S., then they [the relatives] can petition for them to remain here i...
MIKE MILNE

They appeared, luckily, to be in fine health. This group was pretty well prepared with water, food t...
MIKE MILNE

It concerns us nationally that we don't have in real time the ability to check a validity of a licen...
MIKE MILNE

I think it's all going to be determined by oil prices and this far this morning, it's upwards and on...
TERRY MILNE

Make no mistake -- selling Australian uranium to China will make the world less safe.
CHRISTINE MILNE

There were a series of laboratory procedures that needed to be gone through.
CHARLES MILNE

We were waiting on laboratory results for the N type. We expect to get those later today.
CHARLES MILNE

Our first game here we could not hit a jump shot. Coach told us to make sure we take the ball to the...
BILLY MILNE

I just heaved it. I had no idea where it was going.
BILLY MILNE

I wanted Valley to beat Hyde so we could beat Valley.
BILLY MILNE

Don't mess with the best or youll die like the rest
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There is still nothing on offer to stop NHS dentists from going into private practice, or attract ba...
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They were in bags inside the drums. Some of them were hockey bags, some of them were not concealed a...
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This amplified output is then coupled to an antenna (e.g. a dish) for transmission thousands of mile...
BILL MILNE

We are waiting for the lab results and expect them later today.
CHARLES MILNE

There are a hundred ways in which a boy can injure—if not indeed kill—himself. The more adventur...
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I guess you could say we're more of a Cinderella story with a 10th seed coming in, and by beating Du...
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With the wall so far behind the baskets it makes (the rim) look further away.
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We are quite open, however, to looking at acquisitions and there are opportunities that we periodica...
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But if my father could stand up to schoolmasters and if he inherited some of his own father's gifts ...
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Another dynamic of this last year was our increased penetration into the Japanese market.
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Well, I think first of all, probably the most fundamental thing is that we are a mixed-signal analog...
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All the action, in semiconductors at the present time is in the new consumer applications, and that&...
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One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new peo...
DAVID MILNE

Well, we are expanding in all of our segments of the market.
DAVID MILNE

How does one become butterfly?' Pooh asked pensively.
'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar,' Piglet replied.
'You mean to die?' asked Pooh.
'Yes and no,' he answered. 'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will live on.

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How does one become butterfly?' Pooh asked pensively.
'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar,' Piglet replied.
'You mean to die?' asked Pooh.
'Yes and no,' he answered. 'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will live on.

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How does one become butterfly?' Pooh asked pensively.'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar,' Piglet replied.'You mean to die?' asked Pooh.'Yes and no,' he answered. 'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will live on.

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How does one become butterfly?' Pooh asked pensively.
'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar,' Piglet replied.
'You mean to die?' asked Pooh.
'Yes and no,' he answered. 'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will live on.