Mary Augusta Ward Quotes
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I am not a perfect 10 anymore. I can only try my best.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I'm not super into sports.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I very much admire Uri Ariel. I think he's a man of principles, and effective, and I love him.
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When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.
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If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.
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You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
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Brer Fox, he lay low.
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Since then the field of neurofeedback has grown by fits and starts, with much of the scientific groundwork being done in Europe, Russia, and Australia. Even though there are about ten thousand neurofeedback practitioners in the United States, the practice has not been able to garner the research funding necessary to gain widespread acceptance. One reason may be that there are multiple competing neurofeedback systems; another is that the commercial potential is limited. Only a few applications are covered by insurance, which makes neurofeedback expensive for consumers and prevents practitioners from amassing the resources necessary to do large-scale studies.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.
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Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.