Virginia Gildersleeve Quotes
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
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You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you are able to keep these telescopes pointing at one region of the sky for long periods of time to a high degree of accuracy.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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Islam is a way of living rather than a way of thinking.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
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The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.
