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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In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
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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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Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
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Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for which their reason is unable to discover any adequate cause. The strength of a belief, when it is destitute of any rational foundation, seems, of itself, to furnish a new ground for credulity. We first admit a powerful persuasion, and then, from reflecting on the insufficiency of the ground on which it is built, instead of being prompted to dismiss it, we become more forcibly attached to it.
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It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
