Melvil Dewey Quotes
Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. But liberty, you see, that precious child of our liberal democracy only two hundred years old, has one notable side effect. When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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Even though I'm surrounded by pupils, there is the invisible screen screen between us, and behind the glass wall I am screaming - screaming in my own silence, screaming to be noticed, to be befriended, to be liked.
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Jesus H. Christ. I have new respect for the female of the species suddenly.
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When you repeat a new pattern often, you literally change the neural pathways in your brain. This shift helps true change settle in.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
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I don't trust nobody, especially when they say something good.
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All men would be cowards if they only had the courage.
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Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted, and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child, and be loved by the child. From our children's home in Calcutta alone, we have saved over 3,000 children from abortions. These children have brought such love and joy to their adopting parents, and have grown up so full of love and joy!
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You have no time to think about your footwork. You have to anticipate quickly. If you're late with the footwork, try to get it after the play is halfway over, it's too late.
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The fact is that you can't do everything that you have to do. You have to procrastinate on something. Therefore, procrastinate on small tasks.
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Go on day by day fulfilling the task of the day, and leaving the results with God.
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We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than violence, more than hatred. We allow ourselves to be foiled by the vagueness of the word. After all, love requires the utmost vulnerability. We equip someone with freshly sharpened knives; strip naked; then invite him to stand close. What could be scarier?
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Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.
