Ellen Key Quotes
The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rejoice when he sees in the child tendencies to deviation.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.
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There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
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There has been a terrible hemorrhage of educated women to the West where they can flourish. I understand, but it is terrible. We must stay home.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
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Israel, contrary to most of the West, has a high fertility rate, so there's a lot of young people in Israel. Most families have three kids as opposed to one or two, so a big proportion of the population is under 30.
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I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.
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I'd like to play Matt Damon's daddy. He's a wonderful actor, I really admire him, and I'd like to play his dad one day.
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It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.
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Television and newspapers show people's lives at a certain point. But novels tell you what happened after the riot, what happened when everybody went home.
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I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
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p. 97-98: As quoted in: S.P. Sector (1997). A Study of Issues Relating to the Patentability of Biotechnological Subject Matter. Footnote 51.
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You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?
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But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.
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I was drawn to people that were expressing feeling because that was what was taboo in my family, expressing feeling. And that was what I was made of.
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Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will shine out like the first dawn.
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The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rejoice when he sees in the child tendencies to deviation.
