Doris Lessing Quotes
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.
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I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
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We benefit tremendously from the E.U. Britain does very well in getting back E.U. money for the amount it puts in.
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It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.
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I started working in the oilfield upon graduating high school. I was on the service end of it, driving tank trucks for Johnny Geer for a couple years and learning about oil and gas production. I had a whole cadre of mentors.
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I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weakness.
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I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.
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Sugar crystallizes something in our American soul. It is emblematic of all industrial processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White being equated with pure and 'true': it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.
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Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space.
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.
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I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.
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Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
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It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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I'm obsessed with eyeliner - the darker and kohl-ier, the better.
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The human race has been telling stories since it began.
