Joyce Appleby Quotes
Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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My fans have always loved my metaphors.
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When I started selling air conditioners early on, customers were willing to pay an extra 200 yuan to buy from Suning. Why? Service was good.
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Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
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She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.
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It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand.
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I knew that Jamaica Inn was going to make me a star.
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There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things.
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I believe most things can be said in a few lines.
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My '24' death obviously sent Jack Bauer into a huge downward spiral.
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I'm fascinated by adult women who don't have close friends and how that could come to be. I think when you're a kid, the relationships are so intimate, and you're so connected to your girls, so what becomes of them? What could possibly happen to have you become an adult woman and no longer have that?
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My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers.
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Why do men outperform women on the SAT? The SAT's supposed to predict college grades. Women do better in high school and they do better in college. What's the problem here? Ah, the more you use, the more you start accepting that the SAT's coachable, the more problems you have with it.
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All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.
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In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.
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I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.
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There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension, to vision and knowledge, to a happy life here and now, and to the culmination of wisdom and awakening. And what is that one thing? It is mindfulness centred on the body.
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Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.
