Madeleine L'Engle Quotes
In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
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Simple answers to life’s questioning. That would be a magic beyond any I have ever been seeing.
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I wrote the first draft of the New People quickly but it had been percolating a lot longer. It's a hard question to answer because I'd been working on another novel for years and when I gave up on that, this one came very easily. But I think the work had been going on a lot longer than the actual writing.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.
