Joanna Southcott Quotes

In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.

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• If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.

  

  Ed Harris
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• To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

  

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• The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

  

  Manning Marable
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• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

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• I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.

  

  Wayne McGregor
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• Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.

  

  Vernon Howard
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• I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.

  

  Pat Robertson
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  • Say
  • Vote

• The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

  

  Kate Atkinson
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  • Death
  • Saying

• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Home
  • Play
  • Baby

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
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• Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Food
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• I'm there on all the social networking sites, as it plays an important role.

  

  Yami Gautam
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• I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Live
  • Question
  • Always

• The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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• Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
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• I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.

  

  Randolph Scott
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• I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.

  

  S. E. Hinton
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  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• The purse strings tie us to our kind.

  

  Walter Bagehot

• It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
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• When I was interviewing Hillary Clinton, I knew when I'd ask her something that she wasn't going to give me the complete truth because she would break eye contact with me.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
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• I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".

  

  William Shakespeare
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• Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • Christ
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• In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.

  

  Joanna Southcott
  • Men
  • Truth