George Ade Quotes
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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Men meet; mountains, never.
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...four in five of us are, to some extent, members of faith communities. If just a fraction of this huge body of believers were to connect their faith to sustainable development and act accordingly, with the support of their institutions, the gains could be world-changing
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The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.
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Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.
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I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and they leave at a particular time. The whole glorious history of animals with people is about joy and connection. It's about loving this creature and letting this creature love you.
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A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
