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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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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It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded, incidentally, that the lesson has ever been permanently learned.
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Como las paga el vulgo, es justohablarle en necio para darle gusto.
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I try to use every game as an opportunity to witness. I try to do a little signal every time I make a shot as a way to preach the message in little ways that I can.
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
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Research shows that women at that mid level tend to get promoted based on performance, and men tend to get promoted based on potential.
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My wife and I were worried, when we had our firstborn, about how he was going to think of himself in a mostly white neighborhood. Particularly Asian men, I feel, we suffer more than Asian women, because we're told we're not worth anything in general.
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No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
