Sara Coleridge Quotes
When I read or hear of the mutual injuries of England and Ireland, I fancy it would have been a blessed thing had the sea never flowed between the two countries. Had they been all in one, surely there would have been more unity between them of interests and of feelings. But let us hope that days of peace and general enlightenment will arrive by ways past man's finding out.
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The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.
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In Germany, of course, the Holocaust will always be in our history and a big stain on our lives.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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The story of 'A Dog's Purpose' flowed into me a set piece. The entire book was just there, as if I were connected to a streaming service, a novel wholly formed of character and plot. This has never happened to me before or since. I prayed for help and I got it. A gift.
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We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
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Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
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I've loved cartoons all along. Most people outgrow that when they hit 10 or 12, I guess, but I never did. I'm not sure why.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.
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Andy Clark has several books you can find on Amazon, including 'Natural Born Cyborgs' and 'Being There.' I particularly recommend 'Being There' to anybody who still thinks the Cartesian separation of mind and body should be taken seriously.
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When I was starting out, I thought about how the Internet is global and that we should have a global name, a name that's interesting. At that time, the best name was Yahoo! Suddenly I thought, 'Alibaba is a good name.'
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Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride it as long as you can. Love as long as you can.
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I'm quite claustrophobic, and I don't like everyone crowding around and shouting the same questions.
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Don't ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It's too short, and you're too special.
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Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.
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Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States.
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Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.
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Daily papers in England used to have an entire page of the paper dedicated to what the Beatles had done the day before.
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...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left.
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When I read or hear of the mutual injuries of England and Ireland, I fancy it would have been a blessed thing had the sea never flowed between the two countries. Had they been all in one, surely there would have been more unity between them of interests and of feelings. But let us hope that days of peace and general enlightenment will arrive by ways past man's finding out.
