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When I meet other parents and they're more 'mumsy' than I am - you know, I don't want to be 'mumsy,' but I'm like, 'Were you always like that or... what happened?'


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JOHANN VON GOETHE That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have...
JOHANN VON GOETHE I'm very good at breaking up with people. Very good. It requires a lot of skill, but what you do...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed!
LUDWIG VON MISES He who considers too much will perform little.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER What shall he fear that does not fear death.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth,
To the eternal sun, I render back
These atoms, jo...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend i...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER War is the province of danger.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political inter...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must be...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fa...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Politics is the womb in which war develops.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often ten...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ To secure peace is to prepare for war.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be consid...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Freedom exists only with power.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Before you can do something you must first be something.
JOHANN VON GOETHE How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do th...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnes...
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