Doris Lessing Quotes
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
Quotes to Explore
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They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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I'm a proud family man.
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One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
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My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.
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There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
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The truth is, I'm not body confident.
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
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I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner.
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I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.
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When you look at Google, its job is to find you the perfect web page. There are a lot of cases when you want to know something and a list of websites isn't ideal.
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Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.
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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
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Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
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I love all sports! I'm always impressed by athletes. I also love watching the Olympic Games. In high school, I played co-ed soccer and basketball. I really enjoyed both of those sports, but I have to admit basketball wasn't my calling.
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A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.
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I love my life. I'm very fortunate for the opportunities that I have and whatever, but I haven't got to the level where people are interested in where I walk my dog or anything like that, which is fine by me.
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Many organizations are now trying to walk under the banner of The Learning Organization, realizing that knowledge is our most important product ... But the only place that I've seen it is in the Army. As one colonel said, "We realized a while ago that it's better to learn than be dead."
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Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen.
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Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
