Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
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The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
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So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.
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It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.
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I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the infrastructure that supports growth, and the burdens placed on job creation.
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Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.
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Andrew Carnegie loved libraries; he knew their importance to an educated society and as anchors to our communities. And so, just as some loyal baseball fans travel to attend games at all 30 major league stadiums, over the last decade or so, I have slowly, casually, visited Carnegie libraries whenever I am on the road.
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Athletes can definitely have an impact on society. And it's great that athletes can be a part of uniting the population.
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Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.
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There is no longer a doubt that women are just as competent as men. Gender differences are guided by nurture, as society treats boys and girls differently from an early age.
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
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Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
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Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
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The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
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In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.
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The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.
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For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.
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As part of Social Security reform, I believe that private savings accounts are a part of it - along the lines that President Bush proposed.
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I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost.
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Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
