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1. Adoption 2. What is heaven? 3. TV violence 4. TV/movie ratings 5. Racial profiling 6. Vietnam war 7. Exercise 8. Cloning 9. Genetic engineering 10. Young love 11. Vegetarianism 12. Veganism 13. Organ donation 14. School standards 15. Pit bulls 16. Divorce 17. inequality 18. SUVs 19. Women in combat 20. Steroids 21. Cell phones/texting while driving 22. Soda in school 23. Organic foods 24. Healthcare reform 25. Friendship 26. Sexism in advertising 27. Scholarships for athletes 28. Live theater 29. Drama 30. Classic books
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1. Adoption

2. What is heaven?

3. TV violence

4. TV/movie ratings

5. Racial profiling

6. Vietnam war

7. Exercise

8. Cloning

9. Genetic engineering

10. Young love

11. Vegetarianism

12. Veganism

13. Organ donation

14. School standards

15. Pit bulls

16. Divorce

17. inequality

18. SUVs

19. Women in combat

20. Steroids

21. Cell phones/texting while driving

22. Soda in school

23. Organic foods

24. Healthcare reform

25. Friendship

26. Sexism in advertising

27. Scholarships for athletes

28. Live theater

29. Drama

30. Classic books

31. Free speech

32. Arranged marriage

33. The zoo

34. Breakfast

35. Reality TV

36. Animal testing

37. Prison system

38. Over population

39. Deforestation

40. Space exploration

41. Animal adoption

42. Purchasing land on the moon

43. Go green

44. Dying your hair

45. The Peace Corps

46. Hate Crimes

47. SAT or standardized testing (SBAC)

48. Street racing

49. Plastic surgery

50. Skateboard Parks

51. Hunting

52. Heavy metal

53. Country Music

54. Learning another language

55. Foreign exchange students

56. Minimum Wage

57. BBQs

58. Eating dinner as a family

59. Calories on menus

60. Starbucks

61. Wal Mart

62. Women in media

63. Presidential campaign ads

64. Ivy League schools

65. Alternative Fuel

66. Homeschooling

67. Homelessness

68. Private Schools

69. Organized Sports

70. Daylight Savings

71. Stock market

72. Capitalism

73. Socialism

74. Political Parties

75. Solar Panels

76. Speed Limits

77. Do-it-yourself (DIY)

78. Accelerated Learning (AP/Honors)

79. Accidents

80. Acting

81. Advice

82. Aging

83. Albert Einstein

84. Aliens

85. Allergies

86. Alzheimer’s

87. Ancient Pyramids

88. Angels

89. Anniversaries

90. Answers

91. Art

92. Artistic Expression

93. Astrology

94. Astronomy

95. Attitude

96. Autism

97. Awards & Recognition

98. Bad Habits

99. Barbie

100. Baseball

101. Beaches

102. Beauty

103. Beauty Pageants

104. Before I die ...

105. Beneficial Insects

106. Believe in yourself

107. Best friends

108. Birds

109. Blues

110. Board Games

111. Life is...

112. Boating

113. Body Clock

114. Body Language

115. Study of handwriting

116. Books

117. Bowling

118. Boxing

119. Braces

120. Building a better world

121. Bulletin Boards

122. Buried treasure

123. Burn out

124. Cable TV

125. Cactus

126. Camping

127. Cancer

128. Candy

129. Candle making

130. Buying a car

131. Car theft

132. Card games

133. Career strategies

134. Being carefree

135. Cartooning

136. Carvings

137. Castles

138. Cats

139. Caves

140. Cell Phones

141. Censorship

142. Ceremonies

143. Change

144. Chicken soup for the soul

145. Children

146. Christmas

147. Circus

148. City Life

149. Civil Rights Movement

150. Civil War

151. Cliques

152. Clothes Shopping

153. Clothing

154. Coaching

155. Coins/Money

156. Color Analysis

157. Colors

158. Comic Books

159. Commitment

160. Common Cold

161. Competition

162. Compliments

163. Computer Art

164. Conflict Resolution

165. Conscience

166. Constellations

167. Conversation

168. Cooking

169. Cooperation

170. Coping

171. Copyrights & the Internet

172. Courage

173. Crafts

174. Creativity

175. Credibility

176. Crime

177. Cycling

178. Dad

179. Dancing

180. Daredevils

181. Dating

182. Debate

183. Decision & Consequences

184. Things my mom says ...

185. Decorating

186. Dedication

187. Defense Policy

188. Dentists/Doctors

189. Depression

190. If I were on a desert island ...

191. Dessert

192. Diamonds

193. Dieting

194. Difficult People

195. Dinosaurs

196. Discipline

197. Discovering yourself

198. Diversity

199. Dreams

200. Dogs

201. Dolls

202. Drawing

203. Dress for success

204. Drought

205. Email Etiquette

206. Earthquakes

207. Ebay

208. Effective communication

209. Eggs

210. Ellis Island

211. Embarrassing Moments

212. Empathy

213. Empowerment

214. Endangered Species

215. Energy

216. Enthusiasm

217. Environment

218. Etiquette

219. Everyday hints & tips

220. Expectations/Pressure

221. Explorers

222. Eye Contact

223. Fame

224. Family tree

225. Farms

226. Fashion

227. Fatherhood

228. Favorite books, movies, etc.

229. The 1990s

230. The 1980s

231. The 1970s

232. The 1960s

233. The 1950s

234. The 1940s

235. The 1930s

236. The 1920s

237. Panic attacks

238. Penguins

239. Polar Bears

240. Football

241. Anorexia

242. Franklin Roosevelt

243. Apple Cider

244. Richard Nixon

245. Astronauts

246. Soccer

247. Roller Coasters

248. Disneyland

249. M & Ms

250. Go Carts

251. Aztecs

252. The Vatican

253. Golf Tournaments

254. Dreams

255. Elvis

256. James Dean

257. Spiders

258. Snakes

259. Bees

260. Blood Donation

261. Water

262. Hummingbirds

263. Breast Cancer

264. California

265. Tennis

266. Cinco de Mayo

267. Water Polo

268. Jackie Robinson

269. The Rock

270. San Francisco

271. Alcatraz

272. Diabetes

273. Missions in California

274. Trucks

275. TiVo/DVR

276. Epilepsy

277. Twins

278. Triplets

279. Boardwalk

280. Valentine’s Day

281. Leaning Tower of Pisa

282. Charlie Parker

283. Dog Breeds

284. The Olympics

285. The White House

286. The Simpsons

287. Cirque de Solei

288. Harry Potter

289. The Empire State Building

290. Romantic Comedies

291. Pearl Harbor

292. Volcanoes

293. Coca Cola

294. Hiroshima

295. The Challenger

296. Diet Fads

297. Clothing Styles

298. Hawaii

299. Panama Canal

300. Toy Story

301. Cuba

302. Hanukkah

303. Kwanza

304. Auschwitz

305. Yosemite

306. Robert Frost

307. Bugs Bunny

308. The Golden Gate Bridge

309. Mount Rushmore

310. Dr. Pepper

311. Betty Crocker

312. Mayan Culture

313. Guatemala

314. El Salvador

315. The NY Yankees

316. American Flag

317. Dolphins

318. Dr. Suess

319. Bubble Gum

320. Fire fighting

321. First Ladies

322. Fishing

323. Fitness

324. Flea Markets

325. Flying

326. Airplanes

327. Focus

328. Football

329. Freedom

330. Funnies

331. Games from around the world

332. Garbage

333. Garage Sales

334. Gender Differences

335. Getting started

336. Procrastination

337. Ghosts/Haunted Houses

338. Glass

339. Glasses

340. Goals

341. Faith, belief, spirituality

342. Golf

343. Gossip

344. Grades and Grading

345. Graffiti

346. Growing up

347. Gyms

348. Halloween

349. Happiness

350. Hats

351. Health

352. Helping others

353. Heroes

354. Hilarious moments

355. Hindsight is 20/20

356. Hippies

357. History

358. Oral Traditions

359. Hobbies

360. Hockey

361. Holiday memories

362. Hollywood

363. Holocaust

364. Home Buying

365. Homemade Gifts

366. Honesty

367. Hope

368. Horse Racing

369. Human rights

370. Humor

371. Hurricanes

372. I wish someone would ...

373. Ideal society

374. Ideas

375. Idiosyncrasies

376. If I knew then what I know now .

377. If I wrote a book ...

378. Illiteracy

379. Imagination

380. Independence

381. Inspirational Moments

382. Insurance

383. Internet Addiction

384. Video Game Addiction

385. Introductions

386. I hate it when ...

387. Jazz

388. Jewelry

389. Jobs

390. Jokes

391. Knitting & crocheting

392. Korean War

393. Kennedy Assassination

394. Famous Families

395. Language

396. Lasers

397. Law

398. Leadership

399. Lefties vs. Righties

400. Leaving Home

401. Lessons learned

402. Life cycle

403. Lightning

404. Limericks

405. Listening

406. Literature

407. Little League

408. Little-known places

409. Living in another time

410. Logic & emotions

411. Lottery

412. Managing stress

413. Why did they do it?

414. Manners

415. Maps

416. Marathons

417. Marriage

418. Martyrs/Saints

419. Meditation

420. Mental Illness

421. Mentor

422. Middle Ages

423. Mime

424. Millennium

425. Miracles

426. Mistakes happen

427. Modeling

428. Mom

429. Motherhood

430. Motivation

431. Mountains

432. Movies

433. Moving

434. Music

435. Musicals

436. My Family

437. My favorite ...

438. Mythology

439. Nails/Nail biting

440. National Parks

441. Nature

442. Nervousness/Fear

443. New Year’s Eve

444. New Year’s Resolutions

445. News/Media

446. Nightmares

447. Noticing the Little Things

448. Nutrition

449. Obesity

450. Oceans

451. Old West

452. Cowboys/girls

453. Olympics

454. Opera

455. Optical Illusions

456. Origami

457. Overcoming Nervousness

458. How to use ...

459. Painting

460. Paperless Society

461. Parades

462. Parties

463. Past presidents

464. People

465. Perfectionism

466. Persistence

467. Personal growth

468. Pets/Animals

469. Philosophy

470. Photography

471. Pioneers

472. Plantations

473. Plastic

474. Plastic bottles

475. Poetry

476. Police

477. Politics

478. Pollution

479. Positive thinking

480. Potential

481. Problem solving skills

482. Productivity

483. Publicity

484. Publishing

485. Quality of life

486. Questions & answers

487. Quotes/famous sayings

488. Rafting

489. Rainbows

490. Rain days

491. Stuff kids say

492. What I learned in kindergarten

493. Rap

494. Reasons

495. Recharging yourself

496. Recycling

497. Red Cross

498. Relatives

499. Responsibility

500. Reunions

501. Rock & Roll

502. Rock stars

503. Rocks and minerals

504. Romance

505. Roses

506. Royal Family

507. Scuba diving

508. Sculpture

509. Seasons and moods

510. Self Confidence

511. Self Esteem

512. Self Image

513. Setting goals

514. Sewing

515. Shakespeare

516. Sharing ideas

517. Sharks

518. Shopping

519. Short stories

520. signs & symbols

521. Simple pleasures

522. Skills I value/want ...

523. Skin cancer prevention

524. Sky diving

525. Skyscrapers

526. Smile

527. Snakes

528. Soccer

529. Softball

530. Song Lyrics: Words to live by

531. Songs

532. Spring fever

533. Star Trek

534. Stars

535. Starting over

536. Statue of Liberty

537. Story reading/telling

538. Hybrid cars, veggies, animals ...

539. Great leaders in history

540. Famous ________ in history

541. Biggest mistakes in history

542. Egyptian Hieroglyphics

543. The childhood of _________

544. How to handle ___________

545. How to make a good first impression

546. Black holes in space

547. Clouds

548. Meditation

549. Yoga

550. Materialism

551. Pen Pals

552. Let it go

553. Good luck symbols

554. What makes you happy

555. How to pick a ___________

556. Local folklore

557. Mysteries of my town/ neighborhood

558. Sign language

559. Crazy laws

560. Origins of superstitions

561. Lesser known presidents

562. Dyslexia

563. United Nations

564. How to find your ancestors

565. Picking a name

566. Manners

567. Exotic pets

568. Near death experiences

569. Dream interpretation

570. The FBI

571. Spies

572. Ninjas

573. The origins of the alphabet

574. DNA evidence

575. History of comic books

576. Nanotechnology

577. Genetically modified crops

578. History of makeup

579. Tsunamis

580. Internet crimes

581. REM sleep

582. Google glasses

583. Witness protection program

584. Composting

585. Helicopters

586. Animal communication

587. Civil disobedience

588. How hurricane/tornado develops

589. Marriage around the world

590. History of crop circles

591. How humor heals

592. The joys of ...

593. Life lessons ...

594. My bucket list

595. Famous last words

596. Jeremy Lin (point guard)

597. Christian Marclay (artist)

598. Viola Davis (actor)

599. Salman Khan (Khan academy)

600. Tim Tebow (quarterback)

601. Marco Rubio (senator)

602. Ali Ferzat (cartoonist)

603. Rene Redzepi (chef)

604. Anthony Kennedy (justice)

605. Novak Djokovic (tennis champ)

606. Ben Rattray (organizer)

607. Yani Tseng (golfer)

608. Raphael Saadiq (singer)

609. Elinor Ostrom (economist)

610. Samira Ibrahim (plaintiff)

611. Jose Andres (activist)

612. Ann Patchett (writer)

613. Dulce Matuz (advocate)

614. Henrik Scharfe (inventor)

615. Freeman Hrabowski (educator)

616. Maryam Durani (broadcaster)

617. Manal al-Sharif (protester)

618. Anjali Gopalan (advocate)

619. Rached Ghannouchi (politician)

620. Barbara Van Dahlen (mobilizer)

621. Ron Fouchier (virologist)

622. Donald Sadoway (engineer)

623. Hans Rosling (statistician)

624. Asghar Farhadi (filmmaker)

625. Sarah Burton (fashion designer)

626. Pete Cashmore (social news)

627. Cami Anderson (superintendent)

628. Preet Bharara (prosecutor)

629. Robert Grant (AIDS researcher)

630. Andrew Lo (Economist)

631. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (film)

632. Alexei Navalny (watchdog)

633. Ray Dalio (hedge funder)

634. Harvey Weinstein (filmmaker)

635. Chen Lihua (philanthropist)

636. Warren Buffett (business)

637. Alice Walton (art collector)

638. Harold Hamm (oil)

639. Sheryl Sandberg (C.O.O.)

640. Tim Cook (C.E.O.)

641. Daniel Ek (music man)

642. Virginia Rometty (tech)

643. Barack Obama

644. Goodluck Jonathan (president)

645. Xi Jinping (successor)

646. Fatou Bensouda (prosecutor)

647. Christine Lagarde (IMF)

648. Mario Draghi (Euro Bank)

649. U Thein Sein (president)

650. Mitt Romney

651. Jay Z

652. Rand Paul

653. Lebron James

654. Malala Yousafzai

655. Chris Christie

656. Michelle Obama

657. Kate Middleton

658. Beyonce

659. Gabrielle Giffords

660. Justin Timberlake

661. Linsey Vonn

662. Pope Francis

663. Jennifer Lawrence

664. Tupac

665. Christina Aguilera

666. Steven Spielberg

667. Jimmy Fallon

668. Marilyn Monroe

669. Abraham Lincoln

670. Mother Teresa

671. John F. Kennedy Nelson Mandela

672. Winston Churchill

673. Bill Gates

674. Muhammad Ali

675. Mahatma Gandhi

676. Maragaret Thatcher

677. Charles de Gaulle

678. Christopher Columbus

679. Geroge Orwell

680. Charles Darwin

681. Elvis Presley

682. Pual McCartney

683. Plato

684. Queen Elizabeth II

685. Queen Victoria

686. John M Keynes

687. Mikhail Gorbachev

688. Jawaharlal Nehru

689. Leonardo da Vinci

690. Louis Pasteur

691. Leo Tolstoy

692. Pablo Picasso

693. Vincent Van Gogh

694. Franklin D. Roosevelt

695. Pope John Paul II

696. Thomas Edison

697. Rosa Parks

698. Lyndon Johnson

699. Ludwig Beethoven

700. Oprah Winfrey

701. Indira Gandhi

702. Eva Peron

703. Benazir Bhutto

704. Desmond Tutu

705. Dalai Lama

706. Walt Disney

707. Neil Armstrong

708. Peter Sellers

709. Malcolm X

710. J. K. Rowling

711. Richard Branson

712. Pele

713. Jesse Owens

714. Ernest Hemingway

715. John Lennon

716. Henry Ford

717. Haile Selassie

718. Joseph Stalin

719. Lord Baden Powell

720. Michael Jordan

721. George Bush, Jr.

722. Vladimir Lenin

723. Oscar Wilde

724. Coco Chanel

725. Amelia Earhart

726. Sting

727. Mary Magdalene

728. Alfred Hitchcock

729. Michael Jackson

730. Madonna

731. Mata Hari

732. Cleopatra

733. Steve Jobs

734. Ronald Reagan

735. Lionel Messi

736. Babe Ruth

737. Bob Geldof

738. Leon Trotsky

739. Roger Federer

740. Sigmund Freud

741. Woodrow Wilson

742. Mao Zedong

743. Katherine Hepburn

744. Audrey Hepburn

745. David Beckham

746. Tiger Woods

747. Usain Bolt

748. Carl Lewis

749. Prince Charles

750. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

751. C.S. Lewis

752. Billie Holiday

753. J.R.R. Tolkien

754. Tom Cruise

755. Billie Jean King

756. Simon Bolivar

757. Anne Frank

758. Marie Antoinette

759. Christiano Ronaldo

760. Yoko Ono

761. Julie Andrews

762. Florence Nightingale

763. Marie Curie

764. Stephen Hawking

765. Lady Gaga

766. Lance Armstrong

767. Shakira

768. Jon Stewart

769. Scarlett Johansson

770. Wright Brothers

771. Rupert Murdoch

772. Al Gore

773. George Clooney

774. Paul Krugman

775. Brad Pitt

776. Kylie Minogue

777. Stephen King

778. Ramses II

779. Homer

780. Confucius

781. Socrates

782. Plato

783. Aristotle

784. Alexander the Great

785. Archimedes

786. Julius Caesar

787. St. Paul

788. Marcus Aurelius

789. Emperor Constantine

790. Muhammad

791. Attila the Hun

792. Charlemagne

793. Genghis Kahn

794. Eleanor of Aquitaine

795. Saladin

796. Thomas Aquinas

797. Marco Polo

798. Johann Gutenberg

799. Joan of Arc

800. Martin Luther

801. Sir Walter Raleigh

802. Galileo Galilei

803. Rene Descartes

804. Oliver Cromwell

805. Voltaire

806. Sir Isaac Newton

807. Catherine the Great

808. George Washington

809. Thomas Paine

810. Thomas Jefferson

811. Mozart

812. Napoleon Bonaparte

813. Karl Marx

814. Woodrow Wilson

815. Konrad Adenauer

816. Ataturk

817. Dwight Eisenhower

818. Chairman Mao

819. The Beatles

820. The Rolling Stones

821. Nirvana

822. Pink Floyd

823. Led Zeppelin

824. The Who

825. Red Hot Chili Peppers

826. The Beach Boys

827. Metallica

828. Green Day

829. Guns N’ Roses

830. U2

831. Pearl Jam

832. AC/DC

833. Def Leppard

834. Kiss

835. Queen

836. Grateful Dead

837. Boy bands

838. Adademy Awards

839. Grammy Awards

840. Emmy Awards

841. Tony Awards

842. Kids Choice Awards

843. Hillary Clinton

844. Colin Powell

845. Bill Clinton

846. Prince William

847. Laura Bush

848. Karl Rove

849. Nancy Pelosi

850. David Petraeus

851. Sarah Palin

852. Ben Affleck

853. Oksana Baiul

854. Tom Hanks

855. Kim Kardashian

856. Rush Limbaugh

857. Jennifer Lopez

858. Susan Lucci

859. Martha Stewart

860. Donald Trump

861. Kanye West

862. Maya Angelou

863. Connie Chung

864. Clint Eastwood

865. Jack Kevorkian

866. David Letterman

867. Jay Leno

868. Johnny Carson

869. Shaquille O’Neal

870. Barbara Streisand

871. Christopher Reeve

872. Ted Turner

873. Michael Chricton

874. Rosie O’Donnell

875. Benjamin Netanyahu

876. Dennis Rodman

877. Kerri Strug

878. Madeleine Albright

879. Ellen De Generes

880. Elton John

881. Arnold Schwarzenegger

882. Ordinary People

883. Say Anything

884. Can't Hardly Wait

885. Legendary

886. Happy Feet

887. Do the Right Thing

888. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

889. Raise Your Voice

890. Our Town

891. Wanted

892. Remember When . . .

893. Once in a Lifetime

894. Carpe Diem

895. The Ripple Effect

896. A Tribute to . . .

897. Straight from the Heart

898. The Other Side

899. Don’t Stop Believing

900. Playing with Fire

901. Never Ending Questions

902. curiosity

903. joy

904. humor

905. fairness

906. hope

907. discovery

908. adventure

909. faith

910. disappointment

911. hypocrisy

912. We’ve Only Just Begun

913. The Worst That Could Happen

914. I Gotta Be Me

915. Get Up, Stand Up

916. Little Boxes

917. Impossible Dream

918. Leader of the Pack

919. Run, Run, Run

920. Since You Asked

921. That’ll Be the Day

922. The A Team

923. Adaptation

924. Almost Heroes

925. Best Laid Plans

926. Can't Hardly Wait

927. Dangerous Ground

928. The Edge

929. Fired Up

930. The game Plan

931. Happy Feet

932. Imagine That

933. Joyful Noise

934. Kicking & Screaming

935. Legendary

936. Made of Honor

937. National Treasure

938. Outrage

939. Please Give

940. The Quest

941. Raise Your Voice

942. Reality Bites

943. Serendipity

944. Toe to Toe

945. Unstoppable

946. Valiant

947. Wanted

948. Win,Win

949. Yes

950. Youth in Revolt

951. Zero Effect

952. My scariest moment

953. I love it when ...

954. If I ruled the world ...

955. If I could do anything ...

956. My super power would be ...

957. It all comes down to this.

958. My first ____________

959. Fairy tales

960. Breaking loose

961. If I had my way ...

962. That noise!

963. Don’t even remind me

964. At last!

965. Little brothers/sisters

966. Big brothers/sisters

967. A narrow escape

968. I’d like to go back to ...

969. You won’t believe it, but ...

970. When I’m 80, ...

971. Time capsule

972. Satisfaction

973. Accomplishment

974. A long, long time ago ...

975. How to ...

976. My name means ...

977. Fads never go out of style

978. Life is easier for boys/girls

979. A blessing in disguise

980. A chip on your shoulder

981. A dime a dozen

982. A drop in the bucket

983. A leopard can’t change its spots

984. A picture paints 1000 words

985. A piece of cake

986. A slap on the wrist

987. A taste of your own medicine

988. Actions speak louder than words

989. Against the clock

990. All bark and no bite

991. All in the same boat

992. Apple of my eye

993. Back to square one

994. Barking up the wrong tree

995. Between a rock and a hard place

996. Bite off more than you can chew

997. Blood is thicker than water

998. Blue moon

999. Close but no cigar

1000. Cross your fingers

1001. Cry wolf

1002. Curiosity killed the cat

1003. Devil’s advocate

1004. Don’t count your chickens before they hatch

1005. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

1006. Drastic times call for drastic measures

1007. Every cloud has a silver lining

1008. Flesh and blood

1009. Get over it

1010. Getting up on the wrong side of the bed

1011. Go for broke

1012. Go out on a limb

1013. Go the extra mile

1014. Great minds think alike

1015. Haste makes waste

1016. Head over heels

1017. High five

1018. Hitting the nail on the head

1019. Hocus pocus

1020. Hold your horses

1021. Icing on the cake

1022. It takes two to Tango

1023. It’s a small world

1024. Keep your chin up

1025. Knee jerk reaction

1026. Knock on wood

1027. Know the ropes

1028. Last but not least

1029. Lend me your ears

1030. Let bygones by bygones

1031. Let sleeping dogs lie

1032. Let the cat out of the bag

1033. Like a chicken with its head cut off

1034. Loose cannon

1035. Mumbo Jumbo

1036. Never bite the hand that feeds you

1037. New kid on the block

1038. New York minute

1039. Off on the wrong foot

1040. Off the record

1041. On pins and needles

1042. On the fence

1043. Out of the blue

1044. Over my dead body

1045. Pass the buck

1046. Pulling your leg

1047. Put a sock in it

1048. Rome was not built in a day

1049. Rule of thumb

1050. Running out of steam

1051. Saved by the bell

1052. Starting from scratch

1053. The best of both worlds

1054. The bigger they are the harder they fall

1055. The last straw

1056. The whole nine yards

1057. Third times a charm

1058. Tie the knot

1059. Til the cows come home

1060. A walk down memory lane

1061. To make a long story short

1062. Variety is the spice of life

1063. Water under the bridge

1064. When it rains, it pours

1065. When pigs fly

1066. Without a doubt

1067. You can’t take it with you

1068. Your guess is as good as mine

1069. Zero tolerance

1070. Family support

1071. Positive family communication

1072. Caring neighborhood

1073. Caring school climate

1074. Parental involvement in schooling

1075. Community valuing children

1076. Using children as resources

1077. Service to others

1078. Safety

1079. Family boundaries

1080. School boundaries

1081. Neighborhood boundaries

1082. Adult role models

1083. Positive peer influence

1084. High expectations

1085. Creative activities

1086. Child programs

1087. Religious community

1088. Time at home

1089. Achievement motivation

1090. Learning engagement

1091. Homework

1092. Bonding to school

1093. Reading for pleasure

1094. Caring

1095. Equality & social justice

1096. Integrity

1097. Honesty

1098. Responsibility

1099. Self-regulation

1100. Planning & decision making

1101. Self control

1102. Cultural competence

1103. Resistance skills

1104. Peaceful conflict resolution

1105. Personal power

1106. Self-esteem

1107. Sense of purpose

1108. Positive view of the future

1109. Positive cultural identity

1110. Your digital footprint

1111. Potatoes

1112. Chocolate milk

1113. School lunches

1114. Banning Harry Potter

1115. Facebook

1116. Instagram

1117. Vine

1118. Bullying

1119. Why ______ is not cool

1120. Teasing

1121. Placing blame

1122. Noisy eaters

1123. Asking questions

1124. Drive through

1125. Shoes

1126. Table manners

1127. Snooping

1128. Laundry

1129. Double negatives

1130. Conspiracy theories

1131. Balloons

1132. Picky eaters

1133. Ice cream

1134. Thank you notes

1135. Flip flops

1136. Asking favors

1137. Jelly beans

1138. Ping pong

1139. Overusing quotations from TV or movies

1140. Weird names

1141. Toothpaste

1142. Flakes

1143. Perfume

1144. Hand prints/Foot prints

1145. Talking to yourself

1146. Let there be light

1147. What’s up?

1148. Unexpected company

1149. 10 items or fewer

1150. Ignorance

1151. Being first

1152. Litterbugs

1153. Wait

1154. Fingernails

1155. Skinny jeans

1156. Darkness

1157. You know

1158. RSVP

1159. Having the last word

1160. Whistling

1161. Forgetting names

1162. Running late

1163. What your laugh says about you

1164. Interrupting

1165. U-turns

1166. Back packs

1167. Can I ask you a question?

1168. Umbrellas

1169. Loud music

1170. Lawn ornaments

1171. Finding faults

1172. mispronunciation of words

1173. How to improve your grades

1174. Junk food at school

1175. Body image

1176. Crash & Burn

1177. Bring your own device to school

1178. Flipped Classroom

1179. 13 things I learned before turning 13

1180. Why I can’t say goodbye

1181. 5 _____ that changed the world

1182. Strange stories about the human brain

1183. Global warming

1184. Archaeological discoveries

1185. The truth

1186. Where symbols came from

1187. "Like a ten-speed bike, most of us have gears we do not use." --

Charles Schulz

1188. "Everyone must row with the oars he has." -- English proverb

1189. "When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion." -- Ethiopian

proverb

1190. "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." -- Joseph Addison

1191. "You can't win unless you know how to lose." -- Kareem Abdul-

Jabbar

1192. "You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist." -- Indira Gandhi

1193. "He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else." --

Benjamin Franklin

1194. "Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That

cannot fly." -- Langston Hughes

1195. "Don't worry about knowing people; just make yourself worth knowing." --

Unknown

1196. "If you have much, give your wealth. If you have little, give your heart." --

Arab proverb

1197. "An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes." -- Cato the Elder

1198. "There is a great distance between said and done." -- Puerto Rican

proverb

1199. "Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing." -- Aesop

1200. "Make friends before you need them." -- Unknown

1201. "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and

you feed him for a lifetime." -- Chinese proverb

1202. "The way to be nothing is to do nothing." -- Nathaniel Howe

1203. "If you were another person, would you like to be a friend of yours?" --

Unknown

1204. "To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue." -- proverb

1205. "Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired." --

Mark Twain

1206. "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why

so few engage in it." -- Henry Ford

1207. "Don't judge a book by its cover." -- English proverb

1208. "The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail and not his

tongue." -- Unknown

1209. "You will never have a friend if you must have one without faults." --

Unknown

1210. "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." -- Unknown

1211. "You can encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated." -- Maya

Angelou

1212. "We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we

are much closer to finding what will." -- Thomas Edison

1213. "We must be authors of the history of our age." -- Madeleine Albright

1214. "You can't unscramble eggs." -- John Pierpont Morgan

1215. "A book is like a garden carried in a pocket." -- Chinese proverb

1216. "No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without

leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed

through it." -- George Washington Carver

1217. "We may all have come on different ships, but we're in the same boat

now." -- Martin Luther King Jr.

1218. "Choose your socks by their color and your friends by their character.

Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense. Choosing your

friends by their color is unthinkable."-- Unknown

1219. "Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration." -- Thomas

Edison

1220. "Each life is like a letter of the alphabet. Alone it can be meaningless. Or it

can be part of a great meaning." -- Unknown

1221. "Your children need your presence more than your presents." -- Jesse

Jackson

1222. "A friend who lies for you may also lie against you." -- Unknown

1223. "The price of your hat isn't the measure of your brain." -- African-American

Saying

1224. "The wastebasket is a writer's best friend." -- Isaac Bashevis Singer

1225. "We are wiser than we know." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

1226. "Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be

friends with anyone else in the world." --Eleanor Roosevelt

1227. "People don't get along because they fear each other. People fear each

other because they don't know each other. They don't know each other

because they have not properly communicated with each other." --

Martin Luther King, Jr.

1228. "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can

steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you

know what you know. And you are the guy Who'll decide where you go." --

Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

1229. "Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is

always bright." -- Benjamin Franklin

1230. "He that flings dirt at another dirties himself most." -- Thomas Fuller

1231. "Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." -- John

Watson

1232. "The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so

many answers." -- Ruth Benedict, anthropologist

1233. "The sleeping fox catches no poultry." -- Benjamin Franklin

1234. "A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the

experience." -- Elbert Hubbard

1235. "One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do

the work of one extraordinary man." – Elbert Hubbard

1236. "Statistically 100 percent of the shots you don't take don't go in." --

Wayne Gretsky

1237. "If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away

from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." --

Benjamin Franklin

1238. "Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument

as one goes on.…" -- Samuel Butler

1239. "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." -- Henry Ford

1240. "This thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down but the staying

down." -- Mary Pickford

1241. "If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you." -- Andre

Previn

1242. "We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg." -- Emily

Dickinson

1243. "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson

afterwards." -- Vernon Saunders Law

1244. "For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not

altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily

and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going." -- Martin Luther

King Jr.

1245. "Life is like a trumpet. If you don't put anything into it, you don't get

anything out of it." -- W.C. Handy

1246. "To err is human, to forgive is divine." -- Alexander Pope

1247. "A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though

he knows that you are slightly cracked." --Bernard Meltzer

1248. "Truth may be stretched but cannot be broken. It always gets above

falsehood as oil does above water." -- Miguel de Cervantes

1249. "Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of

others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope

and, crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and

daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest

walls of oppression and resistance." -- Robert F. Kennedy

1250. "My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it." --

Chuang-tzu

1251. "Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver, the other gold." --

Anonymous

1252. "Not failure, but low aim, is crime." -- James Russell Lowell

1253. "Wherever you are, it is your own friends who make your world." -- William

James

1254. "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." --

William James

1255. "The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you

are playing." -- Billie Jean King

1256. "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters

compared to what lies within us." -- Unknown

1257. "Life is too short to be small." -- Benjamin Disraeli

1258. "The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also

be only the beginning." -- Ivy Baker Priest

1259. "The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am

like a snowball -- the further I am rolled the more I gain." -- Susan B.

Anthony

1260. "The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship." -- William Blake

1261. "[I]t is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more.

It is humbling -- and indeed healthy -- to ask why you have been given so

much." -- Condoleeza Rice

1262. "You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self,

not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people." --

Stephen Gaskin

1263. "He who opens a school door, closes a prison." -- Victor Hugo

1264. "Even monkeys fall out of trees." -- Japanese proverb

1265. "To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks." -- A. A. Milne

1266. "Things turn out the best for people who make the best of the way things

turn out." -- John Wooden

1267. "Children act in the village as they have learned at home." -- Swedish

proverb

1268. "The more he cast away, the more he had." -- John Bunyan

1269. "Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of

elder age." -- Elizabeth I

1270. "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." -- Benjamin

Franklin

1271. "If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two

mouths and one ear." -- Mark Twain

1272. "The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it

usually goes around wearing overalls and looking like hard work." --

Thomas Edison

1273. "Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and

see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and

studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write." -- William

Faulkner

1274. "Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said

nothing." -- Robert Benchley

1275. "Talent is like electricity -- we do not understand electricity. We use it." --

Maya Angelou

1276. "If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better

mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the

world will make a beaten path to his door." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

1277. "There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them

together." -- Josh Billings

1278. "He who will not economize will have to agonize." -- Confucius

1279. "Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." -- Ralph Waldo

Emerson

1280. "If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of

heart trouble." -- Bob Hope

1281. "The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." --

Mark Twain

1282. "A long dispute means both parties are wrong." -- Voltaire

1283. "Behind every able man, there are always other able men." --

Chinese proverb

1284. "Talk does not cook rice." -- Chinese proverb

1285. "The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much

easier to give up than the bad ones." -- W. Somerset Maugham

1286. "When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has

struck before you crush him." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

1287. "Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed." -- Josh

Billings

1288. "Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest. --

William Shakespeare

1289. "A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds." -- Mother

Goose

1290. "The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the

right." -- Lord Hailsham

1291. "Every man is the architect of his own fortune." -- Sallust

1292. "Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed

and digested." -- Francis Bacon

1293. "When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them." -- Confucius

1294. "Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech that you

will ever regret." -- Ambrose Bierce

1295. "So you see! There's no end To the things you might know, Depending

how far beyond Zebra you go." -- Dr. Seuss, On Beyond Zebra

1296. "Every artist was first an amateur." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

1297. "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." -- Lao-Tze

1298. "If you don't know where you want to go, any road will take you there." --

African-American proverb

1299. "A thousand friends are few; one enemy is too many." -- Russian proverb

1300. "Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity." -- Oprah

Winfrey

1301. "Great oaks from little acorns grow." -- Latin proverb

1302. "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise man grows it

under his feet." -- James Oppenheim

1303. "A happy heart is better than a full purse." -- Italian proverb

1304. "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of others." --

Charles Dickens

1305. "When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand." --

Alex Haley

1306. "A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap." -- Spanish proverb

1307. "Appearances may be deceiving." -- Aesop

1308. "Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest." -- Malabar proverb

1309. "Home is where one starts from." -- T.S. Eliot

1310. "I complained that I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet." --

Persian proverb

1311. "I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns

it on, I go to the library and read a good book."-- Groucho Marx

1312. "Life can be understood only backwards, but it must be lived

forwards." -- Soren Kierkegaard

1313. "Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice." -- Alice

Childress

1314. "Many hands make light work." - - English proverb

1315. "Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to

deceive!" -- Sir Walter Scott

1316. "Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people." -- Arab proverb

1317. "My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those

who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in

the first group; there was much less competition." -- Indira Gandhi

1318. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -- Eleanor

Roosevelt

1319. "What goes around comes around." -- African-American Saying

1320. "What its children become, that will the community become." --

Suzanne La Follette

1321. "Consider the postage stamp: Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick

to one thing till it gets there." -- Josh Billings

1322. "What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say." -- Ralph

Waldo Emerson

1323. "Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood." --

Leonardo da Vinci

1324. "Time heals all wounds." -- Geoffrey Chaucer

1325. "Two heads are better than one." -- John Heywood

1326. "When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to

have the old man around. When I got to be 21, I was astonished at how

much he had learned in seven years." -- Mark Twain

1327. "Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you

remember." -- Oscar Levant

1328. "To hate fatigues." -- Jean Rostand

1329. "Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship." --

Benjamin Franklin

1330. "The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the

dead." -- Aristotle

1331. "There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease

whose name is worth remembering." – Theodore Roosevelt

1332. "Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are

slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quick sand of smugness and

self-satisfaction." -- Sydney Harris

1333. "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because

he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears,

however measured or far away." -- Henry David Thoreau

1334. "My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice

cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy." -- Thornton Wilder

1335. "The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." --

Edward Phelps

1336. "One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning." --

James Russell Lowell

1337. "The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands." --

Benjamin Franklin

1338. "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." --

Thomas A. Edison

1339. "Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise." -- William Penn

1340. "Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if

they hang long together." -- Douglas Jerrold

1341. "Friendship is one mind in two bodies." -- Mencius

1342. "Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them." -- Thomas

Fuller

1343. "While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till

it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it." --

Samuel Johnson

1344. "Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." -- Voltaire

1345. "The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be

broken." -- Samuel Johnson

1346. "No man is hurt but by himself." -- Diogenes

1347. "Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." -- Scottish

proverb

1348. "The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his

heart." -- Benjamin Franklin

1349. "Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help." -- George

MacDonald

1350. "It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and

not deserve them." -- Mark Twain

1351. "A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day." -- ancient proverb

1352. "Some of us are like wheelbarrows -- only useful when pushed and very

easily upset." -- Jack Herbert

1353. "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure

about the universe." -- Albert Einstein

1354. "Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in

society." -- William Makepeace Thackeray

1355. "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared

impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis

1356. "As long as I can conceive something better than myself, I cannot be easy

unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it." --

George Bernard Shaw

1357. "While the mind is in doubt, it is driven this way and that by a slight

impulse." -- Terence

1358. "It is better to wear out than to rust out." -- Richard Cumberland

1359. "When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough." -- Henry Fielding

1360. "To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather. -- Henry

David Thoreau

1361. "The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same

scale." -- Aesop

1362. "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." -- May

Smith

1363. "Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams." - - Dr. Rudolf

Dreikurs

1364. “Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?

Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny,

it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live

the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.” -- Tupac

Shakur  


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