Nancy Astor Quotes
No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that is had one-sided government.
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
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With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.
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You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.
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You learn to see by practice. It's Just like playing tennis, you get better the more you play. The more you look around at things, the more you see. The more you photograph, the more you realize what can be photographed and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.
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If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
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My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that is had one-sided government.
