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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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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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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Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.
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I play out my role, I've even been out walking -They tell me that it helps, but I know when I'm beaten...
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.
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Taste is so much more important than fashion.
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A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.
