Emma Willard Quotes
Any women has a right to open a school in any place; and no one, either from law or custom, can prevent her.
Emma Willard
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At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.
Maelle Gavet
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I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.
Larry Hagman
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I want to do everything in my power to ensure the equality between all movements of Judaism in the state of Israel: Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform. In conversions, in budgets, in the eyes of the law. No one can claim ownership over the Jewish God.
Yair Lapid
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund Burke
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
Nancy Gibbs
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I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
J. Michael Bishop
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
Brown Campbell
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When you are clinically diagnosed with depression as a teenager, sometimes people don't understand it. You feel like you should be happy, especially when you have a very lucky upbringing, and you blame yourself.
Cara Delevingne
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I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I said to myself, 'I don't have a mother. I don't need one. I'm going to let music be my mother.'
Quincy Jones
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When you're on top, you're on top.
Venus Williams
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
Samuel Johnson
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About the gnostic writers themselves and the setting in which they lived we know little, although gnostic Christians were influential enough to be denounced at length.
Elaine Pagels
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
Mamie Gummer
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When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.
Dave Foley
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My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
Taylor Dayne
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'An Octoroon' was written over about three years but premiered in 2014. I'm writing about America's relationship to its own history. Race or not, it's a story about suppression and oppression and many populations being devalued systematically.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
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Any women has a right to open a school in any place; and no one, either from law or custom, can prevent her.
Emma Willard