Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes
the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It's the model that put food on the table. It's the refrigerators. It put a man on the moon.
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The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
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A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
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To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
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If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
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As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.
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You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.
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He who knows himself is enlightened.
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If John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan could negotiate with the Soviet Union, then surely a strong and confident America can negotiate with less powerful adversaries today.
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Investing in people is the single most important thing in the knowledge economy. Traditionally, wealth was defined by land and natural resources. Today the most important resources is between our ears.
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Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
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We talk about issues, but I'm not his adviser, I'm his wife... I find that it's really best not to give your spouse a lot of advice. I don't want a lot of advice from him.
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As far as is possible under the ruthless tyranny the organized labor of Soviet Russia is everywhere in a state of full revolt.
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Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence. What was important was that the attempt to write stories kept her straight on the dividing line between truth and fiction. If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar.
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Almost certainly the divine self-claims in John are not historical.
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They were happy years, the four I spent in Glasgow, for I was young and ardent, and had not yet suffered the grave miscarriage of hope which is our human lot.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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We have less nuclear warheads, but the risk of them being used is growing.
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the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!
