Amelia Barr Quotes
No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
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When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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I was brought up as a normal kid.
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Europe is a community of half a billion people, more than Russia and the United States combined.
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Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.
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In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
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A big part of engaging kids in science is not getting the single, correct answer; it's being willing to work with students to discover the correct answer.
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Love food and I love to eat.
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I've really gotten to play a lot of different things, starting with 'Southpaw.' For 'Spotlight,' I got to play this amazing journalist, Sacha Pfeiffer, who worked at the 'Boston Globe' when they broke the story about the sex scandal in the Catholic Church.
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A philosopher is someone who says, 'We know it's possible in practice; we're trying to work out if it's possible in principle!'
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'That guy was a homo - as sure as you're alive.' - Robertson, describing a caller during his appearance on the Larry King Show (Windows Media Video)
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In men this blunder still you find,-All think their little set mankind.
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Life is brutal that way...the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.
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Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.
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A sculpture is something that if it falls on your foot, it will break it.
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Value is not intrinsic, it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment. Neither is value in words and doctrines, it is reflected in human conduct. It is not what a man or groups of men say about value that counts, but how they act.
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I can help a lot of other people who've gone through the same thing by building a center that will help men and women who don't have the funds to take care of themselves and get the medical treatment.
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Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.
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No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
