Willa Cather Quotes
Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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Let me tell you that I love the United States.
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My college friends call me Karu, which is the worst. Only in our country can we make a short form for a short name. But otherwise, I've never had a pet name all my life. But now, in official meetings, someone will call me KJo. And I'll judge that person in my head. Just call me Karan.
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I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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I've been very selective in what I did and didn't do.
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I love playing characters who are multilayered and multidimensional and have a darkness to them, which makes them more realistic and more fun to play.
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Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
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Most who have been looking at the fourth quarter view that as a blip rather than a trend and expect a continued strong economy.
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"Magna Carta is the Law: Let the King look out." So it has always been with tyrants among our own people: when the King was tyrant, let him look out. And it has always been the same, and will be the same, whether the tyrant be the Barons, whether the tyrant be the Church, whether he be demagogue or dictator - let them look out.
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One moment it's a cathedral, at another time there is no words to describe it when it ceases, for short periods of time, to have any regard for the proprieties that constitute not only Parliament, but its tradition. I've seen it in all its greatness. I have inwardly wept over it when it is degraded.
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Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
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If we Americans are to learn from our mistakes, from the flailing, ineffective way we, as a nation, conducted the war on terror after the attacks of 9/11, and from the way we have failed to make our case to the great moderate mass of peace-loving people at the heart of the Muslim world, we need to listen to Greg Mortenson. I did, and it has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.
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Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
