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I believe there are many dysfunctional families in our community. I am particularly concerned about children from low-income families. I wish that those children had more opportunity across the board to enjoy what Sioux Falls offers.


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OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is ...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless ho...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
MADAME DE STAEL Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
MADAME DE STAEL That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself foun...
MADAME DE STAEL Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
MADAME DE STAEL Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are...
MADAME DE STAEL A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
MADAME DE STAEL Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one pr...
MADAME DE STAEL To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
MADAME DE STAEL Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things ...
MADAME DE STAEL Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
MADAME DE STAEL Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
MADAME DE STAEL