Finis Mitchell Quotes
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One of the most effective tools in Brazil's efforts to eradicate slavery is a register compiled by the government that lists individuals and businesses found using slave labor. Those on the 'dirty list,' as the register is known, are fined and remain on it for a minimum of two years during which they cannot access public funds.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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What I've noticed is not only in the military, but in the first responders community, that when you reach out your hand to help one of them, they almost always grab your hand with only one of theirs, because they're using their other hand to reach behind them and pull up somebody else with them.
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My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
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Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.
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The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.
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The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
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I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
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I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.
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No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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Music, and mood, she loves, but love she hates(As curious ladies do, their public cates),This train, with meteors, comets, lightenings,The dreadful presence of our empress sings:Which grant for ever (O eternal Night)Till virtue flourish in the light of light.
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Promised Lands was a better book in my opinion, and it's still my mother's favorite of the three I've done, but I doubt anyone who isn't a blood relative has ever heard of it. Which is to say expectations aren't worth much in the book world.
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I'm a father, and that is the absolute most important thing in my life.
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In the wilderness man learns to have faith in his Creator.
