Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.
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I got to be good friends with Scott Hamilton.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally.
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I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.
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There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.
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I always want to remain positive. In our long history, Iran has been invaded by so many other countries and despite it all, the Iranian identity has survived. People are very courageous, especially the women, who are braver than the men.
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We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.
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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was, but that I was, forgot to be.
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No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
