Henry Major Tomlinson Quotes
Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep.
Quotes to Explore
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I loved the world of imagination.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
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It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.
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We have to tokenize in order to normalize.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
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Growing up as a South Asian-American, I didn't have any female role models.
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He who is contented is rich.
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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.
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Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep.
