Let the people who want to have kids, have them. And let the rest of us spend the extra money on ourselves. Being gay doesn’t make you a bad person. Not wanting kids doesn’t make you a bad person. Perhaps crushing the bones in one little girl’s hand makes you a bad person, but that was an accident.
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Related That you did something bad is not enough to make you a bad person SOTONYE ANGA I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. I have always liked the idea of Superman because I have always liked the idea that there is one pers... DOUGLAS COUPLAND It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor t... HARPER LEE Anyone can make people laugh with a good joke but a truly funny person will make you laugh telling a... DANIEL GRAVES If a bad person was the only one that supported you in your days of tribulation,then that bad person... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones. SHALOM ROKEACH Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones. SHALOM ROKEACH Having a religion doesn’t make a person love or not love others. 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She was not a cat person, fish person, or horse person. On bad days, she w... LAURA LIPPMAN Be around people that make you want to be a better person, who make you feel good, make you laugh, a... GERMANY KENT blackmagic on a person
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blackmagic on a pe... ASTRODOST No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA When the week begins, think of how you will end it. When the week ends, think of how you did begin i... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH People think bigger movies are bad, and that's just not true - there's bad big films, and th... JON FAVREAU Not everybody who has a tattoo is a bad person or doesn't take care of themselves. I have five of th... MELANIE RICKARD Our victimization in a way, can turn us into bullies because, the other person isn't doing something... STEFAN MOLYNEUX When one gets to know what the meaning of life is, life takes a whole new meaning.It makes us see li... GARY F EVANS... The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL A good person has voice gives voice. A bad person has noise makes noise APURVA GAGLANI You?d be surprised ? sometimes the light goes on and kids do very well. You never know what will cat... DENNIS COTTRELL Sometimes people come into our lives to make us a softer person, other times they come to teach us t... FORREST CURRAN A person who doesn’t know how to accept others attitude are those people who doesn’t know how to... JOSEPH BULURAN
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JOHN BURROUGHS Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influen... JOHN BURROUGHS Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all. JOHN BURROUGHS Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communi... JOHN BURROUGHS The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of t... JOHN BURROUGHS One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above the little things." JOHN BURROUGHS Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all -- that has been my religion. JOHN BURROUGHS A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. JOHN BURROUGHS It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. JOHN BURROUGHS Serene I told my hands and wait,
Nor care for wind or tide nor sea;
I rave no more 'gainst tim... JOHN BURROUGHS Without death and decay, how could life go on? JOHN BURROUGHS Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and... JEREMIAH BURROUGHS The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I s... JOHN BURROUGHS Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmun... JOHN BURROUGHS I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live ... JOHN BURROUGHS The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the ... JOHN BURROUGHS He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration ... JOHN BURROUGHS The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its... JOHN BURROUGHS Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more fami... JOHN BURROUGHS The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. JOHN BURROUGHS In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy da... JOHN BURROUGHS To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed b... JOHN BURROUGHS The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve ... JOHN BURROUGHS A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. JOHN BURROUGHS I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The momen... JOHN BURROUGHS It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the real... JOHN BURROUGHS England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay. JOHN BURROUGHS August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haz... JOHN BURROUGHS One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challen... JOHN BURROUGHS I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. JOHN BURROUGHS To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not de... JOHN BURROUGHS It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the su... JOHN BURROUGHS Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, i... JOHN BURROUGHS The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then ... JOHN BURROUGHS When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his ham... JOHN BURROUGHS The type of mind of Whitman's, which seldom or never emerges as a mere mentality, an independent... JOHN BURROUGHS For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self... JOHN BURROUGHS The country is more of a wilderness, more of a wild solitude, in the winter than in the summer. The ... JOHN BURROUGHS Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consci... JOHN BURROUGHS The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being... JOHN BURROUGHS One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, ... JOHN BURROUGHS If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from... JOHN BURROUGHS Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christia... JEFF BURROUGHS Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing. The city, a place to which one goes to... JOHN BURROUGHS The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larcen... JOHN BURROUGHS The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together. JOHN BURROUGHS Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice fro... JOHN BURROUGHS Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times JOHN BURROUGHS To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. JOHN BURROUGHS Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thin... JOHN BURROUGHS The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. JOHN BURROUGHS The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in
winter; the fleshy, in summer. I... JOHN BURROUGHS