Eudora Welty Quotes
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
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Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.
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Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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Somewhere we went wrong We were once so strong Our love is like a song You can't forget it at all.
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My motivation wasn't really to get a $95 million contract, you know?
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When the Bill of Rights was written, no one owned a MAG5100, 100-round magazine for an M-16. The concept of a mass slaughter carried out over a matter of minutes was incomprehensible.
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The head coach is the chemist.
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In my view, as a country we need to rediscover some of that skepticism about government and revisit that libertarian agenda.
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When I was a boy, I was sagging my pants like everyone else. Some boys become men and continue to sag their pants because that's their form of rebellion.
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Most people can't see beauty and love. I see our music as medicine.
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It's all about the quality of the fabric, how soft it is and feeling comfortable in what you're wearing.
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VR could, in theory, connect sports fans in different geographical locations so they could watch a game together. Instead of a group text or Twitter stream of commentary playing out across time zones when a team is playing, our avatars could inhabit virtual stands, side by side with the rest of our digital tribe.
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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My father was very methodical about life. He'd always ask me, 'Now, what's your system? What's your schedule like?' I have no big system, no rigid schedule. When he would ask, 'How do you do this? Give it to me step by step,' I'd try to convince him that there were no step-by-steps.
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'Teenage Wildlife' is just epic. It's, like, five or six minutes long, and it kind of crescendos and builds into this insane vocal of Bowie wailing. I think I would pay $5,000 dollars to see footage of that recording session.
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Exposure to some pesticides during infancy, even at very low levels, can lead to serious life-long consequences if the pesticides disrupt hormone-driven developmental processes.
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My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one.
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I love L.A., but you can get into a lot of trouble out here.
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Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".
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We climbed slowly toward the greatest of our terrors of that time, we went to expose ourselves to fear and interrogate it.
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A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
