Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.
Quotes to Explore
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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'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
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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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One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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I think it's perfectly possible for us to stay outside of power politics, or parliamentary politics, and speak about things like the American hegemony in the region or speak about the unjust war on terror that's been brought to our borders.
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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
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That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
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A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.
