Martha Washington Quotes
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.
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I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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Care and pity are two different things.
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There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind.
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Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.
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I have a very positive outlook.
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I'm a big fan of Georges St-Pierre.
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I don't really know what 'a dark place' means. I have windows in my house, and I'm generally an upbeat person! A lot of people throw that word at me because I wear a lot of black and leather.
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If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.
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By 2020, 50 percent of imports should be reduced, which should become 75 percent by 2025. By 2030, India should be energy independent.
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I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.
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I appeal to the philosophers of all countries to unite and never again mention Heidegger or talk to another philosopher who defends Heidegger. This man was a devil. I mean, he behaved like a devil to his beloved teacher, and he has a devilish influence on Germany. … One has to read Heidegger in the original to see what a swindler he was.
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Everything you write as an artist is about your legacy and your catalog and how you would look in a museum.
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Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand.
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I had to go see the Glee concert with my daughter - oh my God, shoot me.
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He who is grateful doesn't suffer.
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It was just a matter of time before something like this happened, ... You've got a system from top to bottom that's been deconstructed.
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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
