Shana Alexander Quotes
The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.
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It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
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I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
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A person is born with a liking for profit.
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I was born an auntie. I have an older niece and nephew and many younger nieces and nephews.
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I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot.
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When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying that the task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases?
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Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a nationality.
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Your soul sings to mine. My soul is yours, and it always will be, in any world. No matter what happens. I need you to remember that I love you.
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If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies.
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Make what you most need to find
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Stop hoping for a completion of anything in life... Do what you love to do, what you are waiting to do, what you've been born to do, now.
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I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.
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Magic is the power within oneself. You have enough strength and exertion and energy to view things as they are, personally, properly, and directly. You have the chance to experience the brightness of life and the haziness of life, which is also a source of power. The fantastically sharp-edged quality of life can be experienced personally and directly. There is a powerful sense of perception available to you.
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But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.
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Why dost thou shrink from my approach, O Man? Why dost thou ever flee in fear, and cling To my false rival, Life? I do but bring Thee rest and calm. Then wherefore dost thou ban And curse me? Since the forming of God's plan I have not hurt or harmed a mortal thing, I have bestowed sweet balm for every sting, And peace eternal for earth's stormy span.
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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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Nature fits all her children with something to do,He who would write and can't write, can surely review.
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The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.
