Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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I would like my kids to study well.
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Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.
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I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.
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In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
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Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?
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We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.
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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.
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Most women loathe limericks, for the same reason that calves hate cookbooks.
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It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
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Unfortunately, every American citizen takes the same position... that we don’t like negative advertisements. But they work! And, as you see, many a candidate has prevailed by tearing down the reputation of an opponent in a more advantageous position.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
