E. Nesbit Quotes
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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We must never bend too much.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
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I have a great office.
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If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through.
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I feel like if you enjoyed the 119 hours that precede the finale of 'Lost,' is that whole experience ruined by the fact that you might not agree with everything that we did in the finale? I would hope not! I would hope that you would appreciate the fact that you were entertained for 119 hours even if you didn't love the finale.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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Fashion is an industry of action, not discussion.
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Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.
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The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.
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Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.
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Sympathy relies on a common experience. If you're clumsy, you might have sympathy for others who tend to bump into things. Empathy, on the other hand, is the ability to understand another person's feelings even if you've never experienced them yourself.
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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.
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If you really get into a particular character, you also want to do your own stunts.
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I was the little white kid who rocked the turntables.
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A red, red rose, all wet with dew, With leaves of green by red shot through.