And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.

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I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful.

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To enlighten the world, let your light of love and kindness shine as bright as the morning sun.

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Seems to me that for you, evangelicalism is like the boyfriend you broke up with two years ago, but

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I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I alm

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Wit is educated insolence.

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Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching

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Our government is certainly going to fall like a rope of sand if unsupported by the moral fabric of

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I feel like I should probably ask you to leave. But I don’t really want you to go. I want you to sta

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The words aren't enough every time. Actions speak much more.

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Religious figures, gargoyles, and grotesques, she though, looked fine on Gothic cathedrals, but she'

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The chase of the whirlwind is vanity.

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My library is an archive of longings.

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Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!

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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

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No matter how many snowstorms will pass through you, none will bring you the spring like love will.

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Take action! An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention.

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Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.

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Any family without an entrepreneur has a limited hope.

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The power which establishes a state is violence the power which maintains it is violence the power w

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There's only one true superpower amongst human beings, and that is being funny. People treat you dif

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Always be grateful for life, love, and joy.

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Perfectionism is adaptive if you are mindful of your humanhood.

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Jenny slowly awoke on the sacrificial altar to an Ethereal Light that flamed through the east wall,

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It was the kind of moonthat I would want to send back to my ancestorsand gift to my descendantsso th

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In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.

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Just because you are available for a relationship, doesn't mean you are ready for one.

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If your mind is not at peace you cannot find it anywhere else in the world.

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Friendship happens when the distance between the hearts tends to zero.

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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

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I want you forever, not just for tonight.

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Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

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Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge

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The woman with hair of flames knelt over me. She might have been pretty if not for the anger in ever

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Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

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The good go for the better to come.

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Too many locks, not enough keys.

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I had a lump in my throat the size of a bundt cake pan.

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