Meghan O'Rourke Quotes
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.
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The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.
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Technological change is never an isolated phenomenon. This revolution takes place inside a complex ecosystem which comprises business, governmental and societal dimensions. To make a country fit for the new type of innovation-driven competition, the whole ecosystem has to be considered.
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One might talk about the sanity of the atom the sanity of space the sanity of the electron the sanity of water- For it is all alive and has something comparable to that which we call sanity in ourselves. The only oneness is the oneness of sanity.
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Monk's music is often defined as enigmatic, eccentric and humorous - as if it had little to do with the pain he may have endured to create his art. But I believe Monk routinely shared his history with his audience, no matter how unpalatable that history was, and it is for that very reason that his music connects with people around the globe.
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In St. Louis, some people were hurt seriously when some fans got on top of a roof that was where other fans were underneath it, at a park somewhere, and it collapsed.
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A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.
