Mary Barnett Gilson Quotes
I complacently accepted the social order in which I was brought up. I probably would have continued in my complacency if the happynecessity of self-support had not fallen to my lot; if self-support had not deepened and widened my contacts and my experience.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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People take things so seriously.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
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Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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Football is an elective. It's a game. It's make-believe. And to think that people have brain damage from some made-up game.
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I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.
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Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.
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I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.
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A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.
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I complacently accepted the social order in which I was brought up. I probably would have continued in my complacency if the happynecessity of self-support had not fallen to my lot; if self-support had not deepened and widened my contacts and my experience.
