Sara Paretsky Quotes
And the fury in my community was just staggering. The young priests in the parish were behind the message. The older priests weren't necessarily, but they all followed the orders of the cardinal and read the letter. Every Sunday, 2,000 people came to mass at that parish. The following Sunday, the attendance dropped to 200, and never recovered.Sara Paretsky
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
Ed Bradley -
I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Saint Augustine -
Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
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Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.
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Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.
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They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie
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It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta.
C. V. Raman -
Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.
Gary Sinise -
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Jack Kemp -
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Edgar Degas -
I try not to obsess about recording. I'm definitely the one who will leave all the mistakes-to have that balance between what's undone and done. I try to move on to the next thing. I have friends who have been working on the same song for five, six years. They just won't let the songs go.
Beck
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I had anger but never hate. Before the war, I was too busy studying to hate. After the war, I thought, What's the use? To hate would be to reduce myself.
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I think, generally, British people are more culturally cynical about the things that involve our own country. Especially the royals.
Claire Foy -
Games are all about taking risks.
James Altucher -
MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
Dan Fogelberg -
When I was 4 years old, I woke up in the middle of the night and told my parents there was a witch crying outside in the boxwood bushes. I didn't know who she was or why she was crying, but I was terribly upset.
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And the fury in my community was just staggering. The young priests in the parish were behind the message. The older priests weren't necessarily, but they all followed the orders of the cardinal and read the letter. Every Sunday, 2,000 people came to mass at that parish. The following Sunday, the attendance dropped to 200, and never recovered.
Sara Paretsky