L. Frank Baum Quotes
Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their attitude and decided to produce a shorter edition for middle-class families. This led to Wilhelm's editing and censoring many of the tales.
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I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.
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I believe that every child in Maryland deserves a world-class education, regardless of what neighborhood they grow up in.
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We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.
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The word 'operatic' is often misused to mean over the top, where someone is over-emoting. And that does a terrible disservice because 'operatic' to me means a commitment and a belief to the emotion of the moment that is sincere.
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My mom is always with me. When I made my major-league debut I told her, 'That's it. You don't work anymore. I'm going to work and take care of you.
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Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.