Mabel Osgood Wright Quotes
Even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.
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I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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Words have life and must be cared for. If they are stolen for ugly uses or careless slang or false promotion work, they need to be brought back to their original meaning - back to their roots.
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I fear the future.
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I'm an introvert. I get my energy by spending time alone. I need that hour or two to myself every day.
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An individual may perceive a way of life, or a method of social organisation, by which more of the desires of mankind could be satisfied than under the existing method. If he perceives truly, and can persuade men to adopt his reform, he is justified. Without rebellion, mankind would stagnate, and injustice would be irremediable.
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Even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.
