Jane Taylor Quotes
Far from mortal cares retreating, Sordid hopes and vain desires, Here, our willing footsteps meeting, Every heart to heaven aspires.

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A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
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I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.
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If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
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What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.
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As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.
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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
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Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.
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Está triste, porque te abandonan y no estás caído.
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In my mind, there's a time and a place for putting your foot down.
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The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.
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Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
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Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president.
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I like to put people into situations that are out of their comfort zone and see what happens.
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The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.
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Ray Aghayan told me to be more flamboyant, but I have to be me.
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I've always loved the English language. I just like words, you know?
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Until having kids, I had never really thought about mortality so much.
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I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.
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Perhaps he needs the money. Some of the men live too richly for their purses, if you understand me. Fame would allow him large debts, but everything has to be paid back in the end.
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My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts – some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it.
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That's how it is with people—nobody cares how it works as long as it works.
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Far from mortal cares retreating, Sordid hopes and vain desires, Here, our willing footsteps meeting, Every heart to heaven aspires.