Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.
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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
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We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don't need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy, often leaving them full of garbage in our wake. Thrift is inimical to our being.
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Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.
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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
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Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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When you literally build a state of granite, it takes a certain toughness and perseverance as well as a unique blend of community and independence: a culture that also helps spur economic growth.
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When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'
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Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.
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Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.
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Also, bad quality causes big disruptions in my river system.
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I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.
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You can promote fights - of course, you have to - you can say 'I'll beat you' or whatever, but you cannot put family, religion, anything like that in the mix. You need to separate things. That is a line a lot of fighters cross.
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Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
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I always loved when James Stewart did roles that were not so dialogue-based, like 'Vertigo.'
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A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.
