Amelia Barr Quotes
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It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.
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Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
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I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.
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The writer Denise Chávez comments on poor food and what you associate with luxury food items. In fact, she wrote a whole book called A Taco Testimony, and though the title sounds light, it's a heavy book. It's about being working class and what kind of food is available to you that's cheap.
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Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.
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Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers. And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum. That's the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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I knew I should have cleaned that musket!
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This is what Baylor is all about, .. This is 2012 and it implements faculty expertise and it allows students to experience international culture, not only that, but a culture within a culture.
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I guess I could have a couple of secrets.
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Gonzales incident happened last September 21. The announcement is September 28. This is not rush. In fact it was studied by the legal.
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Why you play with my heart and not show love consistently? I put my life on the line, you wouldn't take that risk for me Fucked up my trust, wish I could delete all our memories Keep poppin' these pills, I hope it take away my misery
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I kind of got inspired by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess.
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Thousands of engineers can design bridges, calculate strains and stresses, and draw up specifications for machines, but the great engineer is the man who can tell whether the bridge or the machine should be built at all, where it should be built, and when.
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A dreamer of the common dreams, A fisher in familiar streams, He chased the transitory gleams That all pursue; But on his lips the eternal themes Again were new.
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This is where the world is going: direct access from anywhere to any type of data, whether it's a small piece of data or a small answer but a long algorithm to create that answer. The user doesn't care about this.
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Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey.
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A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more Darwinian than it is. This probably comes from the oversimplification inevitable in secondary sources: low-level textbooks semipopular articles, and so on. Also, there is probably some wishful thinking involved. In the years after Darwin, his advocates hoped to find predictable progressions. In general. these have not been found-yet the optimism has died hard and some pure fantasy has crept into textbooks.
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The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
