Sue Townsend (Susan Lillian Townsend) Quotes
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One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.
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I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.
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One of the stupidest things we ever did was to take creative departments out of the agencies.
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A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.
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There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.
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The key to genuine happiness is in our hands. To think this way is to discover the essential values of kindness, brotherly love and altruism. The more clearly we see the benefits of these values, the more we will seek to reject anything that opposes them; in this way we will be able to bring about inner transformation.
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She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back down the lines of branching consequences to the point before the destruction began. She needed to contemplate with eyes closed the full richness of what she had lost, what she had given away, and to anticipate the new regime.
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The beauty of the environment is an important factor in the quality of life.
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To get Swaraj is to get rid of our helplessness.
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Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.
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Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.
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Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!
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It has always puzzled me that so many people have taken it for granted that God favors those who believe in him. Isn't it possible that the actual God is a scientific God who has little patience with beliefs founded on faith rather than evidence?
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I took my sight and mobility for granted.
