Betsy DeVos Quotes
We must first listen, then speak - with humility - to genuinely hear the perspectives of those with whom we don't immediately or instinctively agree.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.
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I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
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If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
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I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.
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I always have to have a six pack or twelve pack of Entenmann's doughnuts in my house, no other brand.
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The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
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Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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No one is ever ordinary.
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I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.
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I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black,And lights are guttering low:Square your shoulders, lift your pack,And leave your friends and go.Oh never fear, man, nought's to dread,Look not to left nor right:In all the endless road you treadThere's nothing but the night.
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How I wish you could see the potential The potential of you and me It's like a book elegantly bound, but In a language that you can't read just yet You got to spend some time, love You got to spend some time with me And I know that you'll find love I will possess your heart
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking.
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Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.
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When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person.
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We must first listen, then speak - with humility - to genuinely hear the perspectives of those with whom we don't immediately or instinctively agree.
