Flora Lewis Quotes
Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she's still being Oprah if anybody hasn't noticed... what I bring to TV is myself... I really think there's space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.'
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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For everything I wished were different about the old man, I found comfort in just as many things that never changed.
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I hope that the movie industry will learn from the experiences of the music industry and will be much more constructive in their approach to P2P.
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My religious training told me that in times of personal uncertainty one should seek God's direction through personal prayer and study of the Christian scriptures.
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How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?
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Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
