George Herbert Mead Quotes
In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.
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Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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I am more vintage than I am high fashion.
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The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.
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Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Avarice is a deadly sin.
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I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.
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Eventually the dollar won't always rule. Eventually there will be a challenge to the United States and it will have to be like other countries that are a bit concerned about their currency, and then have to ratchet back in order to - right, in order to sustain. We just haven't reached that point yet.
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Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play--that embryonic notion of kindergarten.
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All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.
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I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.
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In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.
