John Donne Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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I find it easier to strike the ball with my instep across goal. But I've scored in loads of other ways, too.
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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
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Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.
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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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Now an audience of more than 1 billion people is only a click away from every voice online, and remarkable stories and content can gain flash audiences as people share via social networks, blogs and e-mail. This radically equalizes the power relationship between, say, a blogger and a multibillion dollar corporation.
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The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.
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I was weak and pathetic and I couldn't control myself. An explanation, especially a bullshit one, doesn't alter the circumstances. I need to change, I have to change, and at this point, change is my only option, unless I am ready to die. All that matters is that I make myself something else and someone else for the future.
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Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.
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When I died last, and dear, I die As often as from thee I go.
