Isabel Paterson Quotes
The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.
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I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
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When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now.
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A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
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If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it's such a big deal.
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When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.
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I agreed the situation was sticky. Indeed, offhand it was difficult to see how it could have been more glutinous.
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Vain, very vain, my weary search to findThat bliss which only centers in the mind.
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Charisms are not distributed at random but are dispensed by God to supply what is needful and lacking in his Church at each historical moment. If they are from God, they usually do not flow with the latest fashionable trend but much more likely contain an antidote and remedy for the perils of the time.
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His speech is a burning fire.
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I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased.
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The market is like a language, and you have to be able to understand what they're saying.
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The way the tour has developed has been as good an example of that as you would like to see.
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I definitely start early and keep items in mind throughout the year for key people in my life. I love wrapping everyone's gifts in hand-painted wallpaper sheets, which gives the gift extra love.
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In the US, banking and finance are regulated on the federal and state level, there are multiple federal bank regulators, and there are separate securities and commodities regulators.
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My favorite memory about 'Baywatch' is the music. That was my favorite part. It was, like, my calling. And to watch everyone run in slow motion.
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Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
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But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government.
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I like being able to talk about work while we're making dinner. I'd rather discuss it at that moment while it's fresh.
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The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.
