R. M. Ballantyne Quotes
Dere is one cave,” remarked the guide, “not far off to here. P’raps we be safe if we git into ’im. But I ’fraid it not do, cause him be peepiled by fiends an’ dead man’s spirits.

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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Children are all foreigners.
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Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
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I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.
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Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.
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The U.S. has a long history of walking up to the precipice of rigor and then walking away. As voters, let's support leaders who were courageous enough to make the hard decisions necessary to move our system forward. And as parents, let's put our faith in our educators, our children and tests that hold them to their highest potential.
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One grand fallacy of the women's movement: Expecting work to mean 'power' and 'self-fulfillment.'
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What people mean by consultation is an imitation of what they see in America; pressure groups and lobby groups..It's an unthinking adoption of Western practices of development without any pruning and modification to suit our circumstances.
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Because you're fat, you feel that everybody's watching every bite you take. So, you closet-eat, and you think because nobody sees you eating, then you're not eating. You know, if you're eating a Big Mac in a closed car, can anybody hear you nosh? If I ate only what people saw me eat, I would've probably been about 170 pounds.
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My father used to see God in human beings and in his work. Each person has his own way.
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Alcohol is a class of drugs that we call 'the sedatives.' And what you're doing is just knocking your brain out. You're not putting it into natural sleep.
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We have grown up watching women be used as props on a man's journey. It's not our fault that that's what we saw as children. But we need to acknowledge that and do better.
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Climate change is very real.
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The great directors managed to dissolve and disappear into the work. They make other people look good.
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Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.
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Joe Lieberman can be cloying and sanctimonious.
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Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.
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I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one.
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The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
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Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture.
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Still, there was also was something reassuring about working for Commercial, almost hopeful. Like things that were lost could be found again. As we drove away, I always tried to imagine what it would be like to open your door to find something you had given up on.
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Loving is so easy as this is in your core, this is who you are. Hate is very foreign and it is very damaging to the person who does it.
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Dere is one cave,” remarked the guide, “not far off to here. P’raps we be safe if we git into ’im. But I ’fraid it not do, cause him be peepiled by fiends an’ dead man’s spirits.