Willa Cather Quotes
The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
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As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.
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I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.
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Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.
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Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
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My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.
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Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.
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As I had visualized, 'Heroine' is shaping up to be a very contemporary film with a different premise and strata. This film, like most of my other films, is a blend of facts and fiction. The film has a larger span, more characters, and costumes... a journey that revolves around an actress's life and the showbiz.
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I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
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The fact that I've managed to find a husband who understands and respects everything I do is astonishing.
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To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
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Ever since I was little, I loved to eat. I started eating when I wasn't hungry. My weight has always been up and down.
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All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.
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A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.
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The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own.
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When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.
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When you have a brilliant sun, which is a source of vision, the light from the sun shines through every window of the house, and the brightness of its light inspires you to open all the curtains. In the vision of the Great Eastern Sun, no human being is a lost cause.
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He who does not work shall not eat
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I was always taught to be hungry and humble.
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The last guy tried to get out of me writing him a ticket by saying, 'Kiss me, big boy, kiss me like there's no tomorrow!'...as I recall, I didn't write that ticket.
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The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.
