If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.
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Joss Whedon
It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood, A beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?.. It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood, A neighborly day for a beauty. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?.. <span style="margin:15px;...
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Fred Rogers
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
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Groucho Marx
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall. Then fill the shelves with lots of books.
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Roald Dahl
Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.
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Shannon L. Alder
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