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* "Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." -- Leo Buscaglia

* "The kindest word in the world is the unkind word, unsaid." -- unknown

* "Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." -- unknown

* "Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face." -- Sydney Smith