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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What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?
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There is no crisis at all between the European Union and Israel. If there was a crisis, we would not be here.
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I'm a hopeless romantic.
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Without qualification, I am grateful to and have the highest regard and respect for all of the wonderful people on 'Two and Half Men' with whom I have worked and over the past ten years who have become an extension of my family.
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Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?
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No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!