Deborah Sampson Quotes
Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege.
Deborah Sampson
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
Adam Grant
I actually love doing period pieces, purely because it takes you into a different world, mentally. The clothes you have to wear are so far from our everyday clothes that it immediately helps with the character and putting you in that mind frame.
Tamsin Egerton
My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
Dan Aykroyd
Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.'
W. E. B. Du Bois
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Oscar Wilde
There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.
Daley Thompson
That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
Edmond de Goncourt
Liberty University is the world's largest and fastest-growing evangelical university.
Jerry Falwell, Jr.
The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.
Bernard Goldberg
At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.
Alex Lifeson
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The Ephesians took great pride in their temple, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Amazons had worshipped here, and the fabulously rich King Croesus built the original temple.
Adrienne Mayor
Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege.
Deborah Sampson
