Mary Boykin Chesnut Quotes
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
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Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
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I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.
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When a man sits in our jails for a number of years, and around him friends and family become angry, that is how we create terrorists.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.
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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
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For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place.
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Seeking God? We have totally revised corporate worship services to be sensitive to "seekers." If worship were to be tailored for seekers, it would be directed exclusively to believers, for no one except believers ever seeks God (Rom. 3:9-12).
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The will to do, the tenacity to overcome all obstacles and to finish the course, the strength to cling to inexorable ideals, are all rooted in courage.
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In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.
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I like form and shape and strength in pictures.
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She died praying that she might die.
