William R. Alger Quotes
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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With the mega – fame came the mega – downfall – you know, with the press and everything – and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.
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Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.
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No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
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You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.
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In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
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Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.
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There is enough of free-of-charge software available on the Net to ease building internet websites and contact pages, as well as implement email marketing campaigns.
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There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
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If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.
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'We do not have a belief, in my way of looking at religion, that says we have to discriminate against anybody,' he said, noting that Jesus Christ reached out to the social outcasts of his time. 'If you were to apply those standards to the teaching of Jesus, I don’t think they fit.'
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Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out.
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As an idea occurs to me, I'll either follow it or not, but I'm more instinctive than master-planner about stuff.
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But when Lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
