Marvin J. Ashton Quotes
Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it.
Marvin J. Ashton
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.
Imre Kertesz
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I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.
Pamela Dean
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
Laura Esquivel
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
T. S. Eliot
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
Lake Bell
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
Ogden Nash
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When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.
Gary Shteyngart
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
P. J. O'Rourke
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One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
Ban Ki-moon
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Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.
Zhang Ziyi
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We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.
Bainbridge Colby
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Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.
Jinato Hu
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In TV, sometimes you get lost in the fog of the scene, and when you're working with such good actors, they can bring you into the scene.
Adriano Giannini
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The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
Fareed Zakaria
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
Hamish Bowles
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Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it.
Marvin J. Ashton
