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One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.

One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.
– Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

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  2. Our freedom of mobility has helped keep this nation free. We are eagles, not herds of cattle. Eagles are much harder to corral with fences. – Tom King
  3. We are at war, and in time of war there is only one rule. Form your battalion and fight. – Kermit Roosevelt III
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  16. It doesn’t hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows. – Laurie Halse Anderson
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  18. It’s lonely up in the top – Kermit the Frog
  19. …the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows… – John Geddes
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  22. The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done. – Edith Wharton
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  24. Love forces, at last, this humility: you cannot love if you cannot be loved, you cannot see if you cannot be seen. – James Baldwin
  25. Those who cannot perceive are no better than those who cannot see…Those who cannot empathize are no better than those who cannot perceive… – Ashok Kallarakkal
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  27. Don’t miss the opportunity to fly with eagles tomorrow because chickens invited you to run with them today. – Matshona Dhliwayo
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