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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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Another generation grew up who did not acknowledge the LORD or remember the might things he had done for Israel.’ (Judges 2:10)
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I want to add something worthwhile rather than just chucking loads of stuff into the world. I don't want to feel responsible for adding to the soup of mediocrity.
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Far from mortal cares retreating, Sordid hopes and vain desires, Here, our willing footsteps meeting, Every heart to heaven aspires.
