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Arnold’s Quote of the Week: over harde woorden / about hard words

“A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Arnold’s Quote of the Week: about bravery / over dapperheid

 “A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer” Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Arnold’s Quote of the Week: about talking / over praten

 A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return Jewish Proverb

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Arnold’s Quote of the Week: over zwijgen / about keeping silent

 No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut Sam Rayburn

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Arnold’s Quote of the Week: about our life rolling by / over ons leven dat voorbijvliegt.

 “Cocooned inside our private dramas we often don’t realize life is rolling by us like it should” Waiter Rant

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Arnold’s Quote of the Week: about fences / over afsluitingen

 “Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up” G. K. Chesterton

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Arnold’s Quote of the Week: over gehoorzaamheid vs rebellie (about obedience vs rebellion)

“When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion” C. P. Snow

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Arnold’s Quote of the Week: about the rest of one’s life / over de rest van je leven

“I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life” George Burns

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Arnold’s Quote of the Week: about bad habits / over slechte gewoontes

“A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it’s an undo-it-yourself project” Abigail Van Buren

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Arnold’s Quote of the Week: about feeling young / over je jong voelen

 “Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty”, Ellen Glasgow