John Donne Quotes
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The American dream is about freedom.
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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Life doesn't stop with football.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
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Belief is thought at rest.
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The people decide who's No. 1, the best in boxing.
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I hyperventilate quite a lot.
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Doing nothing and shrinking spending may save us public money in the short term but could cost us a great deal more over time as the recession takes hold for much longer.
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The migration wave can be stopped.
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Hi and Merry Christmas. I’m honored to have a chance to speak with you and your family this year. Recently we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide system of mass surveillance watching everything we do. Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information.
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If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.
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When I died last, and dear, I die As often as from thee I go.
